desklets do not stay on top during feh slideshow
 

Hi,

I am in a midst of making my own digital picture frame. I want to
display some widgets like the icandy clock, calendar and weather
on top of an existing feh slidheshow. But the slideshow does not
honour the "stay on top" option that I set for the desklets. Can
anybody point me how to achieve this? I am using widgets from
gDesklets and xfce as the window manager.
Is there any other application that I can use to achieve this?
Thanks for any information.

The simplest solution may be the correct one, have you tried using a keep below others option for the slideshow itself?

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I am using feh and it does not have such an option.
man page: http://linux.die.net/man/1/feh

maybe I'm not clear on what you are trying to accomplish. Feh is running the desktop bg, or in a window? also could you upload a screenshot to somewheres and link it here?

Hi,

I am running feh in window mode. I don't want to run it as desktop bg as this would show my task bar and other terminals that are open. I don't think even a screenshot would help in this case. It would only show the slideshow in full screen mode. What I am trying to accomplish is while the slide show is running in full screen mode I want the desklets like world time and/or weather to be displayed at the bottom side of the screen on top of the slide show. As I mentioned earlier I made a digital picture frame by taking the instructions here as reference and it would be cool to also display such information while the slides are running. Thanks again for any help.

You could try running feh as desktop bg, stop the xftaskbar and run the terminals invisibly ( not sure how to do that in Xfce ). Out of curiosity, what terminals do you need open?

Can you give me the command for running feh in bg mode. I want to change the bg every 30 seconds, hide the pointer and scale images to full screen.

from feh manpages