XRaiseWindow XDoesntWork XAsExpected

[Ken Goeppner_1]

Hello again,

This is a follow up to a closed thread on the subject of shell conltrol of X windows. My original post asked for a way to raise a window from a shell script and Mike Stroyan provided the correct method to do so as follows:

#!/usr/dt/bin/dtksh
XtInitialize TOPLEVEL raise Raise "$0" "$@"
XtDisplay DISPLAY $TOPLEVEL
if [ $# -gt 0 ]
then
for W in "$@"
do
XRaiseWindow $DISPLAY $W
done
else
XRaiseWindow $DISPLAY $WINDOWID
fi
XFlush $DISPLAY

This script performs perfectly and I end up with window from where the script was executed being raised. The problem now is that I also want to have the keyboard input focus set for that same window and I thought I had that solved but I was mistaken. I tried adding the following command to the script:

XRealizeWidget $TOPLEVEL

but it turned out not to work as I expected. Is there a dtksh built-in or another method that will do what I need??

Thanks in advance for your help,

Ken

[Mike Stroyan]

The keyboard focus is affected by the window manager used and the settings of several window manager resources. If you are using dtwm with the default resource values keyboardFocusPolicy:explicit and startupKeyFocus:true, then you can cause focus to go to a window by unmapping and then popping up the window. There is no XUnmapWindow in dtksh, but you can do it with xwit.
xwit -unmap -id $WINDOWID
xwit -pop -id $WINDOWID