i think this is in the right forum. if it isn't could someone let me know and i'll see about getting it moved?

basically what i'm looking to do is get a window to autohide such that moving the mouse to the left side of the desktop makes it appear. specifically what i'm trying to do is come up with some sort of hack to get my gaim buddy list to autohide, but the question should apply to windows in general. i was wondering about maybe having a 1 pixel wide superkaramba theme sitting on the left side of the screen that detects mouseovers. i'm running kde on libranet. it doesn't necessarily have to be an elegant solution, and i'd be willing to do a little coding to get it to work. i'm pretty new to the linux environment, so i'm wondering where i should start.

any suggestions?

You could make a mouseover theme that could make a dcop call to gaim to minimize or something probably. I don't see why not. If you wanted to do it a different way, ie coding it without superkaramba, you may want to check out xmms-weasel. It does some auto hiding stuff that's pretty cool. Install it and see what I mean. Or even check out the demo movie on their site.
http://xmms-weasel.sourceforge.net/

Really though to embed a window in a superkaramba theme is not possible that I'm aware of. Calling to a window via dcop calls in a superkaramba theme is done in many places. I wonder if you could construct a call to "move" windows. I know that if you open up kdcop, a dcop browser, you can see all the available functions for a specific window. At least for Konsole, you can access it's move() function.

This could end up pretty cool depending on what you do with this.

Good luck!
-Ryan