hi .
hope someone can help.

How to prevent the active window to become inactive on a @window popup.

Maybe use the -n switch in your /window command, so that the window is minimized?

the @window is to show info on join, notify, query, etc, etc.
so it has to be up for a given time(and it does) but when coming up the @window becomes the active window and that's not what I had in mind

I think the window has "ontop" set, try using the switch '-u'. This is assuming that you have used the switch '-do'.

Is there some order the switches have to be in?
Because I put the -u at the end the beginning and the middle but it doesn't work.
I still have to click the channel window in order to go on with my typing.

Please show us the /window code that you are trying.