stacking windows

[Bob Snyder]

Luca Fini wrote:

>I must start a program from an OpenOffice presentation.
>
>The mechanism provided works perfectly, but i cannot see the window opened 
>by my program because the presentation page cover the full screen (as it 
>must) and the opened window remains below.
>
>What I think I need is some argument to be given to the program so that 
>the window is forced to come on top of the topmost window.
>
>I'm using xfce 4.2.0 on a linux Fedora Core 3.
>
>I'd appreciate any hint.
>
>Many thanks,
> 					l.f.
>

Have you tried the window manager preferences to give new windows the 
focus and to raise windows when they receive focus?

Bob S.