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lanoxx / tilda

A Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix
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Add support for using Tilda as a desktop (aka transparent wallpaper) terminal #123

Closed paulie-g closed 9 years ago

paulie-g commented 9 years ago

Here's an (ugly) example: http://i.hmp.me/m/4eb8a88b8533e386f2321f4f58f4e2c2.png

Tilda is almost perfect for this as-is, with one exception: "toggle show desktop" and similar (eg Super-D by default in openbox) will hide it, whereas the desired behaviour is for it to remain and receive focus.

In order to persist across "toggle show desktop" functionality invocations in ICCCM/EWMH compliant window managers, an application needs to set the _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE hint for the window in question to _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP before it's mapped in. While a couple of other kludges enable such a use case on specific WMs in other ways (eg Dock window type hint handling abuse), this should enable Tilda to do it on all compliant WMs without interfering with docks/launchers/etc. Incidentally, it would be the first to have such support afaik/ct. Not everyone wants to do it, but the people who want to do it really want to.

A pull request will be coming in shortly adding this feature, configurable in the config or by means of the wizard. Defaults to no, obviously.

lanoxx commented 9 years ago

Closed by commit: 55164e2761368127fa01835279ef0e5c6fabbe11