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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse)
Subject: Re:  std app --> WM calls: raise window?
Message-ID: <9103280515.AA15782@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Sender: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Organization: The Internet
Date: 28 Mar 91 05:15:59 GMT
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> How does a standard X application use Xlib or Xt calls to tell the
> running WM to raise a given window to the top of the screen stack ?

It can't.  It can *ask* the WM to do so by using XReconfigureWMWindow,
but the WM is free to ignore the request or do something else instead.

>     PLEASE don't use "REPLY" (there is no such address as glenn@DNA.LTH.Se)
>     ----------
>     Glenn  Jennings       DSt/LTH       Email:  glenn@dit.lth.se (CORRECT)

Odd.  The From: header I saw was

	From: glenn@dit.lth.se (Glenn Jennings)

					der Mouse

			old: mcgill-vision!mouse
			new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu