re a question on window ids in article wnk aquifer geology uiuc edu wnk aquifer geology uiuc edu walter kreiling writes given a program running on a workstation with an x based window system how can one pop the window in which it is running to the top by window i mean the terminal window from which it was invoked one can t the application may not have been started from a terminal emulator if it was the terminal emulator may not still exist and if it does it may be in no condition to be pop ped to the top eg it may be iconified and even if you can it may not do what you want consider a virtual root window manager like tvtwm with the relevant window in a portion of the virtual desktop that s outside the real desktop some but not all x terminal emulators provide environment variables giving a window id even if such a thing is present in the environment it may not be what you want it may correspond to a window on a different server for example der mouse mouse mcrcim mcgill edu
