On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Steve Jaffe<sja...@riskspan.com> wrote: > > When I do dev.new(), the resulting window comes to the front and grabs the > focus. Is there a way to prevent this so I can continue working in other > windows while the graphics are being produced?
That's a function of your window manager, not R. It can be possible to pass window manager "hints" from an application to a window manager, but your window manager is free to ignore them. For example, if I do: xcalc -iconic on the (Unix, not R) command line of my Ubuntu Hardy box with Gnome/Compiz window management, the calculator pops up like normal. But if I do it on a box running the xfwm4 window manager, it starts iconified. Gnome/Compiz ignores the hint. The Compiz configuration however has a multitude of configuration options controlling how windows appear. It may be possible to set it up so that all X-windows graphics produced by R start iconified, or don't get the focus or whatever. I'm not going to dive into my Compiz config now (System... Preferences.. Advanced Desktop Effects Settings) to find out since you might be using a different system altogether - KDE, or twm, or something. Barry ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
