lower(3tk)

💅 lower(3tk) — Tk Built-In Commands ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the lower page, we're talking about how you move a window around in the stacking order 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lower window ?belowThis?

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. if you leave out the belowThis argument, the command lowers window so that it's below all of its siblings in the stacking order. translation? it will be obscured by any siblings that overlap it, and it will not obscure any siblings. she's at the bottom of the pile, respectfully 💀✨

but if belowThis is specified, then bestie, it has to be the path name of a window that is either a sibling of window, or the descendant of a sibling of window. rules are rules 🎀

and when that's the case, the lower command will insert window into the stacking order just below belowThis — or below the ancestor of belowThis that is a sibling of window — and lowkey the way that could end up either raising or lowering window is so real 😭 like, it's giving "which way is up", not me double-checking the direction every single time 🙈

✨ all toplevel windows may be restacked with respect to each other, whatever their relative path names, but the window manager is not obligated to strictly honor requests to restack. so you can ask, bestie, but the WM might just say no 💅 no cap.

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• raise

👑 KEYWORDS 👑

• lower
• obscure
• stacking order

and that's the whole page, you ate it 🍓 this one's brought to you by Tk, version 3.3, with lower(3tk) sitting pretty at the bottom of the footer like the icon she is 🌈💜 mwah, go restack something 🎀