According to this, XRaiseWindow in Metacity should work, but focus stealing prevention stops skippy from using it;
> So, my question is have the window managers decided to not honor the
> standard XRaiseWindow request?
>
[...]
It's called "focus stealing prevention", see e.g.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2003-May/msg00013.html . A
short
description is that only the user (i.e. taskbar etc.) and the most
recently
activated application are allowed to raise or focus windows, requests
from
inactive applications are not honoured. As already said above,
applications
are usually not supposed to do that anyway.
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-January/012420.html
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