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This was a discussion on how to make the initial\nshow of a figure come up to the front. What you are asking for is a\nprogrammatic way to bring a particular window to the front in an\ninteractive context. Could you file a new issue as a feature request? It'll\nget more attention that way rather than rezzin' an dead discussion.\n\nOn Fri, May 6, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Steven G. Johnson <notifications@github.com>\nwrote:\n\n> Although new windows are created on top for me with the TkAgg backend,\n> there still doesn't seem to be any backend-independent way to raise an\n> existing figure window to the front, analogous to Matlab's shg\n> <http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/shg.html>.\n>\n> —\n> You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.\n> Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub\n> <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/596#issuecomment-217502788>\n>\n"}}