This is odd! If I change
"org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences.disable-workarounds" to TRUE,
everything works fine
El 23/08/16 a las 19:11, rastersoft escribió:
> 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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