Solaris

Thanks for the response MadeInGermany. I followed your instructions and downloaded and compiled the C code for xraise. However, I can't get it to work. I ran the "xwininfo" program and got my window's info (it returned 0xc00005 "My Program"). I ran xraise: ./xraise "My Program" but it did nothing. No errors, just sat there (I had to CTRL-C it).

When I compiled the code, I noticed several warnings such as "return makes integer from pointer without a cast". Do you get these cast warnings when you compile the program?

Yes, I got the compile warnings, too.
Still it works for me, tested on a SparcStation, $DISPLAY was :0.0.
If it doesn't find the window:

Code:

$ ./xraise "xy not exist"
Cannot find a window by that name.
$

Changing the display variable had no effect. The program still won't do anything. It just hangs. These systems are pretty old, so that may have something to do with it.

I wrote my own C code to raise an X Window with the XRaiseWindow function (Xlib Programming Manual: XRaiseWindow). It works, but only if I hard-code the window's hex value (like 0xc00005) into the program before compiling. If I try to get the window's hex value from argv[] as a parameter, I get a BadWindow error.

Any idea on how to get the window's hex value as a parameter? Code:

Code:

#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/Xutil.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  Display *display = XOpenDisplay(NULL);
  Window window = argv[1];

  XRaiseWindow(display, window);
  XSetInputFocus(display, window, RevertToNone, CurrentTime);
  XCloseDisplay(display);
}

This will only work if I replace argv[1] with the actual hex value of the window gotten from the "xlswins" command.

Maybe you must convert the string argv[1] to an int?
Try

Code:

char *ep;
Window window = strtoul(argv[1], &ep, 16);

So just do that, run xlswins to retrieve the window id (if any) and use xraise the way it works for you.

Well, that worked perfectly. I was trying to cast the parameter like (int), which was apparently wrong.

Thanks for the help. Now I can parse out the window hex value with a simple shell script and raise it with this C code. Exactly what I wanted!