Tkinter main window focus

Question

I have the following code

window = Tk()
window.lift()
window.attributes(\"-topmost\", True)

This co

Answer 1

For Linux (Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS) I tried many suggestions including .grab which broke things. In the end I used:

if self.top2_is_active is True: # Are we already playing songs?
    self.top2.focus_force()     # Get focus
    self.top2.lift()            # Raise in stacking order
    root.update()
    return                      # Don't want to start playing again

It's not really "stealing" focus because I have a button on the main window defined as:

''' ▶  Play Button '''
self.play_text="▶  Play"                # play songs window is opened.
self.listbox_btn2 = tk.Button(frame3, text=self.play_text, \
                    width=BTN_WID, command=self.play_items)
self.listbox_btn2.grid(row=0, column=1, padx=2)

After clicking this button the text is changed to:

self.listbox_btn2 ["text"] = "