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ibell opened this issue Jul 26, 2013 · 6 comments
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matplotlib makes python lose focus #2253

ibell opened this issue Jul 26, 2013 · 6 comments
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ibell commented Jul 26, 2013

This seems to have cropped up roundabout 1.2.1, and I tried to see whether it worked in 1.3rc5, but I couldn't get 1.3rc5 to work at all. A topic for another ticket.

When you use matplotlib and do a plot, python loses focus. I think it might be spawning another process which momentarily gets focus, but I can't tell. The end result is that matplotlib results in python getting and losing focus, which is very annoying if for instance you have a long-running batch which is doing plotting and you are trying to do other things on the computer.
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mdboom commented Jul 26, 2013

Which platform and backend?

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ibell commented Jul 26, 2013

Windows 7 64-bit, Py 2.7 32-bit, WXAgg backend

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This is related to #2743 .

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efiring commented Feb 25, 2014

@tacaswell Correct. Probably what we really want is to have both focus and on top vs behind be configurable in a backend-independent way. This can be done only if all gui toolkits on all platforms provide this capability. I suspect they do, but I'm not sure, and I can't take the time to find out. Until someone can research this, I don't think we should make any changes.

@tacaswell tacaswell added this to the v1.5.x milestone Feb 25, 2014
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Fair enough. I milestoned both this one and #2743 as 1.5

@tacaswell tacaswell modified the milestones: 2.1 (next point release), 2.2 (next next feature release) Oct 3, 2017
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QuLogic commented Apr 22, 2020 •
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IIUC, this is covered by the figure.raise_window rcParam in #15440.

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@QuLogic QuLogic modified the milestones: needs sorting, v3.3.0 Apr 22, 2020
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