How to bring program to front using python

Question

I would like to force my python app to the front if a condition occurs. I'm using Kubuntu & QT3.1

I've tried setActiveWindow(), but it only flashes the task bar in KDE.

I think Windows has a function bringwindowtofront() for VB.

Is there something similar for KDE?

Answer 1

Have you tried using those 3 (in this order) on your window instead of only setActiveWindow?

show()
raise() # this might be raiseW() in Python
setActiveWindow()

Answer 2

Check if KWin is configured to prevent focus stealing.

There might be nothing wrong with your code -- but we linux people don't like applications bugging us when we work, so stealing focus is kinda frowned upon, and difficult under some window managers.