Show window in Qt without stealing focus

c++ qt focus window-management active-window
dutchmega picture dutchmega · Jun 8, 2009 · Viewed 23.4k times · Source

I'm using the Qt library to show a slideshow on the second monitor when the user isn't using the second monitor. An example is the user playing a game in the first monitor and showing the slideshow in the second monitor.

The problem is that when I open a new window in Qt, it automatically steals the focus from the previous application. Is there any way to prevent this from happening?

Answer

dutchmega picture dutchmega · Jun 20, 2009

It took me a while to find it but I found it: setAttribute(Qt::WA_ShowWithoutActivating);

This forces the window not to activate. Even with the Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint flag

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