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[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> 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