On 2015-10-18 09:47, Anthony Walter wrote: > rather it is showing an application window and bringing it to the > foreground when your application isn't the active graphical application.
Unlike Windows, X11 applications do not have much say in anything related to an application window (size, position, modal etc). They are at the mercy of the Window Manager. Applications under X11 simply request (ask for) position, size, modal, focus etc, but it is no guarantee they will get it, it is up to the Window Manager to decide if those requests are successful or not. Generally, X11 is a lot less annoying than Windows, so you don't (easily) get pop-to-front, system modal etc ability. Such functionality is considered rude, and why X11 frowns upon it. That is life, and I find it refreshing. Some desktop environments will flash the taskbar icon - if a taskbar exists in the desktop environment at all. Some applications will use a notification window, or System Tray icon to draw attention. Anything more, and it is the luck of the draw - no guarantee. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
