Re: new command: raise

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> I cannot comment on how useful it is under Windows, OS2, etc.
> If you need it, then fine.
>
> But I am not yet convinced it is useful in an X11 environment.
> There are better solutions available at a higher level (the window
> manager).

I think I have written here several times why these solutions do not work,
or they would work only with some additional effort.


> I do take your point that the window title is not always obvious.
> We have a "set term ... title 'foo'" option, but the user may not always
> think to take advantage of it.  Maybe we should add  an auto-title
> feature, similar to the auto-titling of plots themselves?
> If the user has set an explicit title, then use that one.  If the user has
> not set a window title, then set it to match the title of the current plot
> displayed in the window. Does that sound reasonable?

This discussion is nice -- but it is not a replacement for "raise", that's
just an additional feature.

> But I also don't think it is necessary.  I am perfectly happy to just
> click on the appropriate icon or taskbar entry to raise the window
> if I need to.  If appropriate I can even "pin" it via always-on-top so
> that it stays visible at all times.

BTW, there are experimental workstations with X11 where there is no "nice"
window manager to use those tricks with titles.

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Petr Mikulik