click-to-raise-and-focus behaviour

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Thursday January 29 2015 15:54:47 Brandon Allbery wrote:

> It depends on how they manage window stacking. Some window managers just
> use XRaiseWindow/XLowerWindow, which works like twm. Others use
> XRestackWindows, which can only restack within the X11 windows and can't
> raise an X11 window over a native window because native windows are
> invisible to it.

Ah, thanks, interesting. I don't know what other X11 users who don't use quartz-wm think of this, but it sounds like it would be useful to patch in an XRaiseWindow or XLowerWindow call *after* the code has performed its restacking.

R.