Possibly any tweaks that will allow xfdesktop to run superkaramba?

[Dave Wood]

On (17:59 18/10/08), JoeHill <joehill at teksavvy.com> put forth the proposition:
> Dave Wood wrote: 
> 
> > On (13:38 18/10/08), David Mohr <squisher at xfce.org> put forth the proposition:
> > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Dave Wood <dave at unrealize.co.uk> wrote:  
> > > > I'm using kdesktop at the moment but I would rather use xfdesktop so I can
> > > > have my rightclick menu back.
> > > >
> > > > I have tried setting up a custom rightclick menu with kdesktop but it's
> > > > very buggy.
> > > >
> > > > I've tried playing with composite options etc with xfdesktop but not much
> > > > luck there.  
> > > 
> > > I don't see what xfdesktop has to do with compositing. Also what's
> > > that superkaramba you're talking about in your subject?  
> > 
> > It's a program for kde that allows various widgets on the desktop:
> > 
> > http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/ssuperkaramba.html
> > 
> > It's quite popular and allows clocks, weather, system monitors etc on the
> > desktop.
> > To run it in xfce you must kill xfdesktop and use kdesktop though or the
> > widgets dont get drawn correctly.
> 
> Or you could just run screenlets, they work fine with XFCE.

Yes I have heard of screenlets but I was afraid about the gnome
dependencies. I'm using slackware and as you may know gnome was dropped
from slackware some time ago in favour of kde.

I will give it a go though.

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