Always on Top

[Rinaldi J. Montessi]

Odenthal, James P wrote:
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> The product measures size of parcels as they speed by on a conveyor.
> The government's "legal-for-trade" certification agency requires a
> display.  If on PC, it must never be covered.  Yet we need access to
> other dialogs, setups.  The display is 2 lines, last two boxes. Small
> enough put along bottom.  Under setup we want to see expanded list,
> last 10/20 boxes.  Maybe a dock, or a toolbar would work better?
> I've got 56 hours to demo time....

I have icons on my desktop created by my file manager (TkDesk).
*Nothing* ever covers them.  I offer the following only as a possible
guidance to solving your problem:

xwininfo: Window id: 0x4001dc "di1-top"

   Absolute upper-left X:  1116
   Absolute upper-left Y:  -18
   Relative upper-left X:  1116
   Relative upper-left Y:  -18
   Width: 85
   Height: 60
   Depth: 24
   Visual Class: TrueColor
   Border width: 0
   Class: InputOutput
   Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
   Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
   Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
   Backing Store State: NotUseful
   Save Under State: no
   Map State: IsViewable
   Override Redirect State: yes
   Corners:  +1116+-18  -79+-18  -79-982  +1116-982
   -geometry 85x60-79+-18

~$ xprop
WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
                 user specified location: 0, 0
                 program specified minimum size: 1 by 1
                 program specified maximum size: 1265 by 994
WM_PROTOCOLS(ATOM): protocols  WM_DELETE_WINDOW
WM_HINTS(WM_HINTS):
                 Client accepts input or input focus: True
                 Initial state is Normal State.
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "di1-top", "dsk_DeskItem"
WM_NAME(STRING) = "di1-top"

Any other info you'd like?

Rinaldi
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