Bring Lazarus to front under linux is very tedious
lazarus / 32-Linux

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Tommi · 2021-10-29 08:58

When I overlap  a window (for example Firefox) over Lazarus, and after
that I want to go back to the IDE, I have to manually click on each
icon for every window of Lazarus (Object inspector, Forms, Messages,
Lazarus IDE etc.).

Under windows there isn't this effect because the icon of lazarus is
unique and clicking that I bring to front all IDE's components.

How could I solve this?

Thank you

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howardpc · 2021-10-29 09:12

Tools -> Options

In the IDE Options dialog  Environment, Window page ensure the "Show
single button in TaskBar" checkbox is checked.
However, there may be Linux window managers that do not respect this
setting.

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MarkMLl · 2021-10-29 11:10

Thanks for that Howard... appears to work in KDE (from Debian
"Buster") but as you point out there's a lot of desktop environment
(which these days includes the Window Manager) possibilities.

MarkMLl

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Tommi · 2021-10-29 17:58

Quote from: howardpc on October 29, 2021, 11:12:14 amTools -> Options

In the IDE Options dialog  Environment, Window page ensure the "Show
single button in TaskBar" checkbox is checked.
However, there may be Linux window managers that do not respect this
setting.

Thank you, Howard. On Cinnamon it doesn't work so good,  because when
Lazarus is reduced, if I click on the icon it open just the toolbar of
lazarus. After that I have to click on desktop and click again on the
icon to make all other windows appearing.
In any case it's still better than noting.

Thank you,
Bye

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PierceNg · 2021-10-30 01:19

Quote from: Tommi on October 29, 2021, 07:58:28 pmThank you, Howard.
On Cinnamon it doesn't work so good,  because when Lazarus is reduced,
if I click on the icon it open just the toolbar of lazarus. After that
I have to click on desktop and click again on the icon to make all
other windows appearing.
In any case it's still better than noting.

You could try https://wiki.freepascal.org/Anchor_Docking. See usage II
further down that page. This makes Lazarus kinda MDI with fewer
windows to click on.

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alpine · 2021-10-30 06:09

Thanks from me too, howardpc.

Does anybody knows why my Lazarus doesn't want to keep the settings in
IDE Options/Environment/Window for the next time it starts?

Same with both versions, fpcupdeluxe installed:
Lazarus 1.9.0 r64660M FPC 3.1.1 x86_64-linux-gtk2, Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Lazarus 1.9.0 r63034 FPC 3.1.1 i386-win32-win32/win64, Windows 10

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trev · 2021-10-30 06:40

Possibly because you're using a very old "in development" version of
Lazarus circa 2017/18. Many bugs have been fixed since then.

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Tommi · 2021-10-30 07:30

Quote from: PierceNg on October 30, 2021, 03:19:11 amQuote from: Tommi
on October 29, 2021, 07:58:28 pmThank you, Howard. On Cinnamon it
doesn't work so good,  because when Lazarus is reduced, if I click on
the icon it open just the toolbar of lazarus. After that I have to
click on desktop and click again on the icon to make all other windows
appearing.
In any case it's still better than noting.

You could try https://wiki.freepascal.org/Anchor_Docking. See usage II
further down that page. This makes Lazarus kinda MDI with fewer
windows to click on.

Thank You!!!!

AnchorDockingDsgn is a very good plus for Lazarus and it should be
advertised much much more. It would be wonderful if Lazarus would be
released with a docked/undocked option.