Re: Getting focus

[rastersoft <raster rastersoft com>]

Well, it seems that destroying the window and creating it again also
doesn't work.

It seems that I can't "steal" the focus when it is in other application,
but if my app has the focus in one window, I can pass it to another one
using grab_focus().


El 23/08/16 a las 16:24, rastersoft escribió:
> Hi:
>
> > > It's not a problem of being early: I even tried to put a 1-second timer
> > > to call to grab_focus(), but didn't work.
> > >
> > > In fact, the first time I create the window it works fine, but seems to
> > > fail when I hide it and show it again.
> > So it may be related to the window manager?
> I suspect that. In fact, I think I'm going to just save the internal
> widget and create a new window every time I press the hotkey.
>
> It is a guake clone written in Vala, using Gtk3. I'm using libkeybinder
> to detect a global key. It is the same library used by guake and
> terminator, but they use Gtk2. I also implemented a guake mode in
> terminator, but had to do some tricks to ensure that the window received
> the focus on those same cases when my vala code fails (I use a
> show-hide-show scheme, that seems to guarantee that the window receives
> the focus; but it seems to work only with gtk2, but not gtk3).
>
> > Is it Linux with Gnome3 shell? Gnome 3.20?
> That's right. I'm using debian sid.
>
> > May other programs steal the focus?
> No, AFAIK.
>
> > Do other tools work fine? When you hide and show gedit, will it have
> > the focus?
> Yes, everything works fine.

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