xfdesktop

[Aaron]

yea, its a bit flaky with conky. hope they fix it up, but none of them
can figure it out either :'(

On 12/21/05, Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> wrote:
> Jannis Pohlmann schreef:
> > 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?
> >
>
> I believe things like torsmo do this (xfdesktop sets an X property for
> the desktop window), but I'm not sure it works 100% of the time. IIRC,
> there can be problems with refreshing.
>
>         Jasper
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