Undocked Editor, ctrl+shift+0 doesn't bring editor to front as active window

Hello,

I run a X11 forwarded instance of matlab 2017a (ran from a linux server) with a tabbed, undocked, editor on a windows machine. I love motion binds (vim user btw), and I often jump between the command window and editor with ctrl+0, ctrl+shift+0 respectfully.

I noticed that the undocked editor is not brought to the front as my active window despite my cursor being in that window and can still type. I then windows alt-tab to the editor to bring the window to the front and lose my cursor.... making me regrettably pick up my mouse.

Ex. I have a chat client open over my editor on my right monitor and I am working in the command window on my left monitor. I then open a script or ctrl+shift+0 over to the editor and the editor window is not brought to the front of the chat client.

Any Ideas on how I can tweak these settings to bring to front via matlab keybind? (Looking into X11 settings currently)

[Peter]

No luck with x11 or windows window manager tweaks to get the desired behaviour

[Sahas]

Hi @Peter,

I understand the issue at hand, I just want to confirm you are undocking the editor/live editor and not undocking the ".m" file on the editor. As on my end, I am able to navigate to the undocked editor with "Ctrl+Shift+0" shortcut. But this does not work to jump on an undocked ".m" or ".mlx" file.

[Peter]

Thanks for looking into this! I am undocking the entire editor, and am also able to navigate to the editor. The window behaviour is where I am stuck.

[Sahas]

Hi @Peter,

I am not able to reproduce the issue on my end. Maybe I am missing something. Can you layout the steps that you followed and explain the issue a bit more?

[Peter]

I think the issue lies in the x11 forwarding matlab. The config. is in the original post.