Thanks Alan for answering. Your "mouse focus" solution works well enough for
me. Just one point about the second workaround:
> A second workaround would be to take advantage of the capability of
> some window managers to have multiple X window desktops. Simply move
> Stata to (or start it in) an alternate desktop and let it run while
> performing whatever work is desired in the original desktop.
This doesn't work for me here. The graph window pops up in my
working-desktop, not in the Stata-desktop. Maybe there is some silly setting
in my rather old KDE-environment.
Anyway, I am happy with the "mouse focus" solution.
uli
Alan Riley wrote
> Ulrich Kohler ([email protected]) wrote
>
> > I have a Do-File which produces some graphs. I like to run the Do-File
> > while doing something else in another program. For each graph produced
> > by the Do-File, I got the graph window on the top of my screen, forcing
> > me to ALT+TAB back to the other program. The same happens with every new
> > graph produced by the Do-File. The Do-File produces 137 graphs.
> >
> > This makes it almost impossible to do anything except sitting in front of
> > the screen and looking how Stata produces one graph after another. I
> > wonder if it is possible to let Stata open the graph window somewhere in
> > the backround.
>
> We probably could add a setting to tell Stata to not bring the
> Graph window to the front upon the creation of a new graph. However,
> there are a few different workarounds I can think of that should
> help Ulrich.
>
> Ulrich could set his window manager to use "mouse focus", where
> the window in which the mouse currently resides is the window with
> the focus. Then, he could push the graph window way off to the side
> after it popped up the first time to get it out of the way. He
> should then be able to continue working in whatever applications he
> wishes since the mouse will remain over them and they will retain the
> focus.
>
> A second workaround would be to take advantage of the capability of
> some window managers to have multiple X window desktops. Simply move
> Stata to (or start it in) an alternate desktop and let it run while
> performing whatever work is desired in the original desktop.
>
> Finally, a Stata-only solution would be to do as Ulrich suggests
> and -set graphics off-. Then, rather than using
>
> . translate @Graph xyz.eps, replace
>
> Ulrich could have his graph commands save a graph and use it
> in the -translate- command:
>
> . set graphics off
>
> . graph y1 x, saving(mygraph, replace)
>
> . translate mygraph.gph mygraph.eps, replace
>
> . graph y2 x, saving(mygraph, replace)
>
> . translate mygraph.gph mygraph.eps, replace
>
> etc.
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