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nye17
nye17

Reputation: 13357

Ask window manager to place matplotlib plot windows "always on top"?

The question sounds simple, I'm currently using Xfce4 under Linux and I want all the interactive plots popped out of python/matplotlib scripts, to appear On Top of all other windows

Basically I want XWindows to recognize those figure windows and then apply common window operations. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3015

Answers (1)

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 108567

Probably not what you are after, but if you were generating your own GTK gui you can use:

win.set_keep_above(True)

As in:

import gtk
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
from matplotlib.backends.backend_gtkagg import FigureCanvasGTKAgg as FigureCanvas

win = gtk.Window()
win.connect("destroy", lambda x: gtk.main_quit())
win.set_default_size(400,300)
win.set_title("Some Window")

f = Figure(figsize=(5,4), dpi=100)
a = f.add_subplot(111)
a.plot([1,2,3,4,5])

canvas = FigureCanvas(f)
win.add(canvas)
win.set_keep_above(True)

win.show_all()
gtk.main()

Upvotes: 1

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