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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?

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  • Are you using pyplot.show() to show the window? Are you using the default gtk backend? Commented Jul 5, 2012 at 22:06
  • I use various backends, but yep, majorly it's gtk; I used almost exclusively pyplot.show() for display. Commented Jul 5, 2012 at 22:07

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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()
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interesting, I'll give it a shot and see how it goes.

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