[vbox-dev] How-to bring VirtualBox VM window to focus ?

[Michael Thayer]

Hello Aleksey,

The (modern) X11 way of doing this is to send a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW
client message to the window, which the window manager will see and act
on.  See src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/src/globals/VBoxGlobal.cpp
(VBoxGlobal::activateWindow).

I'm afraid thought that I don't have time just now to move the
functionality from the GUI into Main.

Regards,

Michael

On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 02:38 +0300, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> update: I was able to solve the Linux case (by help of IRC #python channel)
> 
> Just 3 lines of code:
> ======================
> import gtk
> wrapped_window = gtk.gdk.window_foreign_new(int(hwnd))
> wrapped_window.focus()
> ======================
> However, this requires end-users to manually disable "Focus stealing
> prevention" in KDE.
> Any ideas on how-to make it work out-of-the-box ?
> 

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