Re: Draw on the root window?

["[rSu]G-LiTe" <g-lite clanrsu com>]

Well, the wheelbarrow is just a normal, but shaped, window. It's not 
exactly what I want, I'm trying to draw on the root window. What I'm 
writing is going to cover the entire root window and should always be in 
the background. I could use a normal window but not all window managers 
support keeping a window in the background as far as I know. That's why 
I'm using this approach. It'd be very nice if I could get it to work.

Carl B. Constantine wrote:

>* [rSu]G-LiTe (g-lite clanrsu com) wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm trying to draw several widgets on the root window.
>>I've been trying to get this to work for a while now. Someone pointed me
>>(and I seem to end up everytime) at this thread:
>>http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2000-August/msg00227.html
>>
>>However that seems to be gtk+ 1.x related. I've tried to modify the code
>>to work with gtk+ 2.x, but all it seems to do right now is draw all the
>>widgets in a seperate window (managed seperately by the window manager
>>and they won't even accept input properly)
>
>
>Have you checked out the Wheelbarrow example in the examples directory?
>I think it *might* answer some of your questions.
>