Bringing gvim to foreground

Question

I am trying to make an alias for gvim that opens a file in a new tab using vim-server, the alias (for now) is:

/util/Linux/bin/gvim --servername $VIMSERVER --remote-tab-silent !*

While this is working, it leaves the gvim window in the background. I would like to bring the window to the front, tried several google solutions without success.

I am using RHEL 5.2, tcsh, vim 7.2, no root (work computer), and I don't have wmctrl installed (found some solutions that use wmctrl).

Help appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

I had the same problem but this appears to work when using KDE.

1. right-click on gvim border and select 'Configure Window Behaviour'
2. select 'Focus' from left side icons
3. change dropdown 'Focus Stealing Prevention' to None

Hopefully that works for you too.

Answer 2

For this, there are the foreground() and remote_foreground() functions, as in:

vim -c "call remote_foreground('$VIMSERVER')" -c quit