Re: Main.chrome.addActor to the desktop level

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

This would be something called the "background actor". Unfortunately, it's not a container, nor does it look like you can set it to another actor... so you have to patch mutter somehow

There are a few approaches you could take:

  1) Add a new API to set the background_actor. You'd just have to make sure that no code assumes the background_actor is an instance of MetaBackgroundActor. To a limited grep, it looks like window-group.c makes this assumption... but that looks easy enough to change.

     The JS side:
     Meta.set_background_actor_for_screen(global.screen).add_actor(rainmeter);

  2) Add a new background_group that either sits above or contains the background_group, and add new API to use it. You'd modify sync_actor_syncing, and add a new method, meta_get_background_actor_for_screen.

     The JS side:
     Meta.get_background_group_for_screen(global.screen).add_actor(this.rainmeter)

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2011/5/8 Erick Pérez <erick red gmail com>

Hi:

I've been trying to add an actor to gnome through a extension but I
want that to be in the desktop level, so any window could hide it, and
I only look a it, when there's no window over it,

How can I do that ?

Erick

Thxs

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