gtk: set active window

Question

I have a gtk.Window. How do I set it to be the active window? I can call is_active() to see whether it already is, but I don't see where to make it active.

Bonus points: given a gtk.Widget, how do I make the window it is a part of the active window?

Answer 1

Ah thanks to this thread, the answer is to call gtk.Window.present().

Answer 2

if W is a gtk.Window:

import wnck
wnck.window_get(W.window.xid).activate()

Answer 3

Here's what worked for me (thanks Dan D for pointing out wnck)

def activate(window):
    screen = wnck.screen_get_default()
    screen.force_update()
    wnckwin = [win for win in screen.get_windows() if win.get_xid() == window.window.xid][0]
    wnckwin.activate(gtk.gdk.x11_get_server_time(window.window))

Answer 4

You can also use gtk.Dialog.run (if it's a Dialog) aditional to gtk.Window.present