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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Question regarding focus donation to another application
From:       jos () mijnkamer ! nl
Date:       2007-05-12 9:00:30
Message-ID: 5c77e14b0705120200n3a38da4ch1cf61617ef974d2e () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 5/8/07, Michael T <raselmsh@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have the following problem: I would like to have an active application
> donate its focus to another application and bring it to the top of the
> window stack.  The situation is basically an application which starts child
> applications, but the problem is that if the child to be started is already
> running, it should simply be brought to the front.
>
> In fact, this is a similar situation to what KUniqueApplication does.  Since
> I am not using KDE (just plain Qt) for this, I can't use KUniqueApplication
> though.  I would just like to know what should be done to tell KWin and
> Metacity to do this.  I don't actually want to work around their focus
> stealing prevention, but rather to tell them to raise the running child's
> window to the same position in the window stack that they would have put it
> in had it just been started.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael

If nobody here knows, you can ask at kwin@kde.org.

/J
 
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