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Can a window manager raise or lower a window?
Yes, a window manager can raise and lower windows. In fact the window manager is normally in charge of lowering, raising, moving, resizing, focusing, and generally managing windows. The X library functions to lower and raise a window are XRaiseWindow and XLowerWindow.
How does the WM _ SetFocus function work?
The SetFocus function sends a WM_KILLFOCUS message to the window that loses the keyboard focus and a WM_SETFOCUS message to the window that receives the keyboard focus. It also activates either the window that receives the focus or the parent of the window that receives the focus.
How to prevent programs from stealing focus in Windows?
How To Prevent Programs From Stealing Focus in Windows is the only page I found that is kinda worth a read about identifying the culprits and trying to deal with them, or a couple of third party programs that may help. Also has a ‘history’ of how it worked with XP 🙂
How to execute a command on window focus / unfocus?
Using this, You can write a wrapper-script to achieve your goal. Above code will run forever checking for focused application. If get the expected result then execute the if condition otherwise execute else condition.
Is there a way to lower the window stack?
There is also the .lower () method that works the same way as the .lift () method, except lowering the window in the stack:
What does WM _ PAINT mean in Windows 10?
Sometimes your program will initiate painting to update the appearance of the window. At other times, the operating system will notify you that you must repaint a portion of the window. When this occurs, the operating system sends the window a WM_PAINT message.
Is there a way to lower a window in Photoshop?
You will notice that it lowers even below other applications, to only lower below a certain window you can pass it to the .lower () method, similarly this can also be done with the .lift () method to only raise a window above another one.