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Desklets for the Cinnamon desktop
http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com
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Feature Request: Desklet to show web page #794

Open zeigerpuppy opened 2 years ago

zeigerpuppy commented 2 years ago

It would be great to have a desklet that can be configured to show a webpage.

This could be used for monitoring dashboards or other uses (a weather radar site for instance).

Suggested Functionality

fredcw commented 2 years ago

better-backgrounds applet will show a web page as background but the other features are not present - no auto update, no password, no resize or zoom.

zeigerpuppy commented 2 years ago

thanks @fredcw, that would be a good alternative for some use cases.

However, the use-case for a web-based dashboard is a bit different and would require authentication at least. Another alternative may be pinning a frameless web browser window. I seem to remember there's a method for doing that somehow...

fredcw commented 2 years ago

I've occasionally thought that this would be a good idea myself. Then you could have a constantly updating webcam image as your background for instance. I don't know how this could be done though.

zeigerpuppy commented 2 years ago

This program pins a window to the background... may be a starting point:

https://github.com/ujjwal96/xwinwrap

found that from this reddit thread

although, it doesn't stay pinned when using the cinnamon "show the desktop" option in hotcorners...

would be nice to be able to show desktop and have it be visible too.

zeigerpuppy commented 2 years ago

actually looks like the -fdt option does make it stick to the background

e.g.:

xwinwrap -b -s -st -sp -nf -fdt -- gifview -w WID mypic.gif -a
zeigerpuppy commented 2 years ago

apparently something like this can also be used to remove the UI elements from a (Firefox) window:

https://github.com/furycd001/dots/blob/master/Firefox/webview.css

So looks close to a solution...