xffm-deskview

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Wed Aug 10 16:41:59 CEST 2005


Roberto -MadBob- Guido schreef:
> Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:
> 
>>When you tick and untick the "show image" button at desktop settings,
>>xffm-deskview notices that the Pixmap has changed and updates
>>accordingly (here the X property _XSETROOT_ID is used).
>>
> 
> Ehm... Sorry if I'm OT, but in those days I'm just going crazy trying to
> understand how XFCE can show always the same desktop also when workspace is
> switched: working around a XFCE "fork" I have touched some piece of code, and I
> can't return to the original situation (maintaining other changing...).
> 
> The main window of desktop have type == "_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP", but when
> I switch workspace the window manager hide all windows *included* the desktop
> window! I recognize I've do some changes to the STICKY properties of windows (in
> short: I've removed it): the problem can be due this bad manipulation? Or: have
> you other suggestions about potential causes of the problem?
> 

If a window is not sticky it will only show up on 1 workspace. This is, 
apparently, also true for desktop windows.

And this has indeed nothing to do with xffm-deskview...

	Jasper



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