Re: [MiNT] XaAES:first menu,was:Release TODO list

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Jo Even Skarstein, 20.01.2013 20:29:02:

> On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 22:41 +0100, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
>
> > > Then autorun TosWin2 from the desktop. Problem solved :) I don't think
> > > it's necessary to complicate this any further.
> >
> > What would you do to force the desktop using the current version?
>
> You can't. There is no way to reliably determine when an application is
> "finished" loading, so how can the AES (or any AES client for that
> matter) know *when* to top a certain client? Sure, you can hack together
> a solution that will work most of the time, but it will still be a hack.

Generally I agree with that, but I found that I also want a certain app to  
be the first topped, and not have to use the taskmanager or click  
somewhere first. And in normal situations this method does this.

It will never be possible to set the first focus after startup reliably.

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Helmut Karlowski