lower(n) Tk Built-In Commands lower(n)

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# [NAME](#NAME)

lower - Change a window's position in the stacking order

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**lower window** ?*belowThis*?

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# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

If the *belowThis* argument is omitted then the command lowers *window* so that it is below all of its siblings in the stacking order (it will be obscured by any siblings that overlap it and will not obscure any siblings). 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*); this could end up either raising or lowering *window*.

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.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

raise

# [KEYWORDS](#KEYWORDS)

lower, obscure, stacking order

3.3 Tk

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Document: lower(n) from tk 9.1.0-r0 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/tcl/tk9.1.0-src.tar.gz