Bring window to fg when a keyboard button is pressed.

[DSS69]

Is there any way to bring up a window to the foreground when a specific button on the keyboard is pressed? I want to make a media player that can appear over a window on command, and send it back to background when done. Only reason is because its annoying to go back to the desktop to change songs and stuff. So is there a way to do it on X11?

[theNoof]

i dont have a full solution for you, but maybe something like this:

(defvar window-layer "bg")

(defwindow window
  ; ommiting other stuff
  :stacking window-layer)

and change window-layer to "fg" in some way, for example by setting a keybind to eww set window-layer "fg"

[DSS69]

It says failed to open window unknown variable window-layer
I did set up a defvar with that name and correct syntax though.

[theNoof]

can you share dots or code snippets?

[DSS69]

`

(defvar window-layer "bg")

;; --- Window Definition ---

(defwindow music-widget
:monitor 0
:stacking "bg"
:windowtype "dock"
:geometry (
geometry :x "5px"
:y "5px"
:width "420px"
:height "120px"
)
(music-widget)

)`
Sorry for the late reply. I was away for a while. I did change the staking bit to window-layer before when I tested it. I only changed it back so that I could still use it for the moment

[theNoof]

you need triple backticks for code like so:

```yuck
<code>
```

the code snippet seems right.
tested a smaller, simpler example myself:

(defvar layer "bg")

(defwindow test
  :monitor 0
  :stacking layer
  :geometry (geometry
              :x "0px"
              :y "0px"
              :width "100px"
              :height "100px")
  (label "test"))

getting the same error.

@elkowar is that a bug? if not, why is this not working?

also, maybe as a quick fix, you could create two identical windows with the only difference being that they have bg and fg and toggle them using a small shell script

[DSS69]

For the time being yeah. I think that's the best way to do it. Thanks for the help @theNoof !