Re: Extra app list...

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Robin Hogan <r j hogan reading ac uk> writes:

> > XPenguins looks awesome...except.... Its not compatible with Nautilus in
> > desktop mode. This may be as simple as adjusting some focus settings in
> > XPenguins...
> 
> Well, I've just downloaded nautilus 0.1 and couldn't find the desktop
> mode - I guess you mean the one in CVS. Well, I anticipate that the
> problem is that the `desktop mode' puts an X window over the root
> window. I could send penguins to this window no problem, except that
> I don't know its window ID. The same problem exists with xpenguins
> and multiple enlightenment desktops, the KDE2 desktop, and CDE under
> solaris. I trawled through the enlightenment code trying to find a
> way to use multiple XQueryTree calls (and similar) to find the
> uppermost desktop window but in the time I spend on the problem I
> couldn't figure out a simple way. If anyone knows how I can do it
> with the nautilus desktop or any of the other cases then I'd be very
> grateful to hear from you. I'd of course have to cope with the errors
> that would be thrown if the desktop window was destroyed and
> xpenguins was still trying to draw to it, but that should be
> relatively easy. 

There is a standard for this in the new window manager spec 
(on www.freedesktop.org.) KDE2 is supposed to support it, and
we should make sure that Nautilus sets the appropriate 
properties as well.

Regards,
                                        Owen