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[Locked] Applet/Plugin Window Names, etc with Compiz widget layer
gaintsura English 1 fabounet [Read]
02 September 2008 à 12:03

gaintsura, Monday 01 September 2008 à 20:16


Subscription date : 01 September 2008
Messages : 1
So, over the past few weeks I've been tweaking my system, giving it some eyecandy, etc.

Last night I decided to enable the widget layer in compiz. Immediately gscreenlets pidgin went to the widget layer. With cairo, I'm using the clock, systray, compiz icon, and rhythmbox applets. When loading the widget layer, each of them come up as the following:

Window Class: Cairo-dock
Window Title: cairo-dock-desklet
Window Name: cairo-dock
Window ID: <null>
Window Role: <null>
Window Type: Utility

Now the problem is, I want to be able to place only select applets on the widget layer, Compiz Icon, Rhythmbox. And I want to keep the systray as it should be. I've tried checking/unchecking the keep on widget layer checkbox in each of the applets and it doesn't change anything. I think that the window name should reflect as cairo-dock-<applet name> thus eliminating the problem.

Besides the above, is there a way to force it?

fabounet, Tuesday 02 September 2008 à 12:03


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 17118
read carefully the little tooltip, you have to enter the following rule :
name=cairo-dock | type=utility

Edit : now that I think of it, maybe we could have find a better solution, like changing the window name/class when it has to go to the Layer, instead of changing the type ...

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[Locked] Applet/Plugin Window Names, etc with Compiz widget layer
gaintsura English 1 fabounet [Read]
02 September 2008 à 12:03


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