How do I raise a window that is minimized or covered with PyGObject?

Question

I'd been using the answer provided in the PyGTK FAQ, but that doesn't seem to work with PyGObject. For your convenience, here is a test case that works with PyGTK, and then a translated version that doesn't work with PyGObject.

PyGTK Version:

import gtk

def raise_window(widget, w2):
    w2.window.show()

w1 = gtk.Window()
w1.set_title('Main window')
w2 = gtk.Window()
w2.set_title('Other window')

b = gtk.Button('Move something on top of the other window.\nOr, minimize the'
               'other window.\nThen, click this button to raise the other'
               'window to the front')
b.connect('clicked', raise_window, w2)

w1.add(b)

w1.show_all()
w2.show_all()

w1.connect('destroy', gtk.main_quit)
gtk.main()

PyGObject version:

from gi.repository import Gtk

def raise_window(widget, w2):
    w2.window.show()

w1 = Gtk.Window()
w1.set_title('Main window')
w2 = Gtk.Window()
w2.set_title('Other window')

b = Gtk.Button('Move something on top of the other window.\nOr, minimize the'
               'other window.\nThen, click this button to raise the other'
               'window to the front')
b.connect('clicked', raise_window, w2)

w1.add(b)

w1.show_all()
w2.show_all()

w1.connect('destroy', Gtk.main_quit)
Gtk.main()

When I click the button in the PyGObject version, the other window isn't raised, and I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test4.py", line 4, in raise_window
    w2.window.show()
AttributeError: 'Window' object has no attribute 'window'

So I guess there must be some other way to get the Gdk.window in PyGObject?

Or is there some different/better way of accomplishing the same goal?

Any ideas?

Anticoagulant

Answer 1

As explained in this post, there are two options:

Raise the window temporarily (probably what you're looking for):

def raise_window(widget, w2):
    w2.present()

Raise the window permanently (or until explicitly changed by configuration):

def raise_window(widget, w2):
    w2.set_keep_above(True)

Lindsylindy

Awesome, that seems even more correct than the way I was doing it previously. – Anticoagulant

Answer 2

present didn't work for me for a temporary raise, but this did:

win.set_keep_above(True)
win.set_keep_above(False)

Overpay

Answer 3

This is what works best for me:

To bring window to front when the application start and then behave normally

win.set_keep_above(True)  # if used alone it will cause window permanently on top
win.show_all()  # show your window, should be in the middle between these 2 calls
win.set_keep_above(False) # disable always on top

using these won't work

win.show_all()
win.set_keep_above(True)
win.set_keep_above(False)

Psychobiology