Re: new command: raise

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Petr Mikulik wrote:

> Often I need to raise terminal windows (or multiple windows in X11)
> covered by other windows on the desktop (editor, console, ...), for
> which I had to do "replot" -- but that doesn't work with inline data,
> with multiple open gnuplot_x11 windows etc.

I don't see how it can be a good idea to have a gnuplot-internal command
to raise a graph window to the front.

If gnuplot is being used interactively, I would think raising windows on
user request is a task well outside gnuplot's domain --- that's what you
have a GUI with a window manager for.

If gnuplot is non-interactive (scripted or redirected), I don't think the
script has any business actively raising windows except when they're first
created or the plot actually changed.  Not unless gnuplot is the only
program displaying visible windows at a given time.  And maybe not even
then.  There must have been a reason X11 has option -noraise to avoid
that, right?

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.