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From: mikeo@sae.UUCP (Michael Ovington)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: ICCCM question about raising windows
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Date: 9 Apr 90 20:38:42 GMT
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   We have an application that can, at the user's request, generate multiple
   top level windows (with XtCreatePopupShell). If the user doesn't delete
   these windows, older windows can become obscured by newly created ones.

   When the user asks the application to display a window that is already
   created, but obscured, I would like to be able to just raise it rather
   than recreate it.

   If the application is running under a reparenting window manager, I
   obviously can't raise the window of the Shell widget I created. Is it
   OK to walk up the window's parents until I get to the root window, and
   raise child of root that I find?

   I don't see this situation covered in the ICCCM. If it is, could someone
   please quote me chapter and verse. If my workaround shouldn't be used,
   could someone suggest a portable way for communicating the raise request
   to the window manager?

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