xfdesktop

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Jasper Huijsmans schrieb:
> Aaron schreef:
> 
>>does anyone know why xfdesktop chooses to draw to a window infront of
>>the root window, and not directly onto the root window? this makes
>>conky and other programs that want to draw to the root window really
>>unhappy, and seems kinda odd in general. just like to hear the reason
>>why not using the root window was chosen.
>>
> 
> 
> Much easier to program. Allows easy event handling through gtk for the 
> menus. It was also done with the idea to make it easy to add desktop 
> icons at a later time. It's not as uncommon as you may think, both GNOME 
> and KDE use this approach for their desktop handling.
> 

Do you know whether it is possible to draw stuff upon that? I've
recently tried out some note taking apps which try this, but none of
them could satisfy me, so I'll try writing my own (using pyxfce) - any
chances to draw upon xfdesktop without making the items behave like
normal top-level windows or dialogs?

Regards,
Jannis