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List:       kwin
Subject:    Re: Raising Windows and Focus Prevention
From:       Milian Wolff <mail () milianw ! de>
Date:       2018-01-10 7:54:01
Message-ID: 6932032.dB9zhiZLkQ () agathebauer
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On Dienstag, 9. Januar 2018 18:10:25 CET Martin Flöser wrote:
> Am 2018-01-09 16:44, schrieb Milian Wolff:
> > On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 4:41:03 PM CET Martin Flöser wrote:
> >> Am 2018-01-09 12:49, schrieb Milian Wolff:
> >> > Hey all,
> >> > 
> >> > I'm trying to raise a Qt window by calling raise() on it. So far the
> >> > code
> >> > essentially looks like this:
> >> > 
> >> > w->show();
> >> > w->setWindowState(w->windowState() & ~Qt::WindowMinimized);
> >> > w->raise();
> >> > w->activateWindow();
> >> 
> >> The simple answer is: don't do that as it won't work on Wayland. You
> >> can
> >> neither raise a window nor activate a window. And on X11 as you
> >> noticed
> >> KWin's focus stealing prevention is kicking in.
> >> 
> >> So the obvious question from me is: why do you want to do that?
> > 
> > $ launch_unique_app &
> > # now cover the window by another app
> > $ launch_unique_app
> > # now the previous app's window should be raised
> 
> Use KDBusService in Unique mode. It ensures exactly that this works on
> X11 (for Wayland we don't have a solution (yet)).

And what does KDBusService do in the background? Is it sending a DBUS command 
to KWin to raise the window?

Thanks

-- 
Milian Wolff
mail@milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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