How do I raise a window that is minimized or covered with PyGObject?

Question

I'd been using the answer provided in the PyGTK FAQ, but that doesn't seem to work with PyGObject. For your convenience, here is a test case that works with PyGTK, and then a translated version that doesn't work with PyGObject.

PyGTK Version:

import gtk

def raise_window(widget, w2):
    w2.window.show()

w1 = gtk.Window()
w1.set_title('Main window')
w2 = gtk.Window()
w2.set_title('Other window')

b = gtk.Button('Move something on top of the other window.\nOr, minimize the'
               'other window.\nThen, click this button to raise the other'
               'window to the front')
b.connect('clicked', raise_window, w2)

w1.add(b)

w1.show_all()
w2.show_all()

w1.connect('destroy', gtk.main_quit)
gtk.main()

PyGObject version:

from gi.repository import Gtk

def raise_window(widget, w2):
    w2.window.show()

w1 = Gtk.Window()
w1.set_title('Main window')
w2 = Gtk.Window()
w2.set_title('Other window')

b = Gtk.Button('Move something on top of the other window.\nOr, minimize the'
               'other window.\nThen, click this button to raise the other'
               'window to the front')
b.connect('clicked', raise_window, w2)

w1.add(b)

w1.show_all()
w2.show_all()

w1.connect('destroy', Gtk.main_quit)
Gtk.main()

When I click the button in the PyGObject version, the other window isn't raised, and I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test4.py", line 4, in raise_window
    w2.window.show()
AttributeError: 'Window' object has no attribute 'window'

So I guess there must be some other way to get the Gdk.window in PyGObject?

Or is there some different/better way of accomplishing the same goal?

Any ideas?

Answer 1

As explained in this post, there are two options:

Raise the window temporarily (probably what you're looking for):

def raise_window(widget, w2):
    w2.present()

Raise the window permanently (or until explicitly changed by configuration):

def raise_window(widget, w2):
    w2.set_keep_above(True)

Answer 2

present didn't work for me for a temporary raise, but this did:

win.set_keep_above(True)
win.set_keep_above(False)