title: python images not appearing on top
body: <p><strong>How can I get images/python windows to appear on top when I run a python script?</strong></p>
  
  <p>I'm using python/anaconda (2.7.10,2.3.0) on osx 10.x and trying to do rapid development on an image processing project.  I'm using matplotlib and opencv.  Every time I render an image/figure, it does not appear on top and I have to cmd-tab all the way to the end to get to it, causing major headaches; I'd like to know how to fix this.  Bonus points if you can give me pointers on a stable python installation for image processing (getting some funny conflicts with opencv library...)</p>
  
  <p>Things I've tried:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>show()</li>
  <li><strong>changing the backend (I've tried PDF, Qt4Agg, Qt5Agg, TkAgg, GTKCairo...)</strong></li>
  <li>updating anaconda/python packages</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>So... what are my options?  Framework installation?  Choose some other back end?  I get the feeling there must be some setting somewhere that I'm missing, since my friend has a near identical setup without this issue.  </p>