lower(n)

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🌟 lower(n) · Tk Built-In Commands 🌟

💅 NAME 💅

lower — change a window's position in the stacking order. That's the whole assignment, bestie: we're moving a window around in the stack. ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

lower window ?belowThis?

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so here's the tea. If the belowThis argument is omitted, then the command lowers window so that it is below all of its siblings in the stacking order. That means it will be obscured by any siblings that overlap it, and it will not obscure any siblings. No-belowThis lifestyle: fully behind the squad. 💅

If belowThis is specified, then it must be the path name of a window that is either a sibling of window or the descendant of a sibling of window. In this case, the lower command will insert window into the stacking order just below belowThis (or the ancestor of belowThis that is a sibling of window). And plot twist: this could end up either raising or lowering window. 😭 So don't assume it's always a one-way trip downward, okay?

All toplevel windows may be restacked with respect to each other, whatever their relative path names are. But — and this is important — the window manager is not obligated to strictly honor requests to restack. So you can ask, but the WM might not fully cooperate. 🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • raise

🎀 KEYWORDS 🎀

  • lower
  • obscure
  • stacking order

Okay bye bestie! This page is from Tk, version 3.3, and the manual page is lower(n). The original footer didn't show a date, so no fake date energy here — just pure 3.3 vibes. 🫶💖

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