desktop?
 

I will ask again. How do I write directly on the desktop? I need to put some text, buttons there that are static. I use gtk but i could do it with x dirctly. anyone?

How do I get the desktop window? to start with?

I don't think you can draw directly on the desktop. Maybe explain what you are trying to do so we can see what might help.

I want to create a n icon that is stastic so it cant be moved or changed. I also want to write some instructions (text) that sticks to the desktop. I thogth that would be simple but im stuck. This is for a kiosk.

Maybe post a mockup from GIMP? Maybe it would be better to explain why you want to draw to the root window (like you are trying to create your own Window Manager)

xroot-tail writes to the desktop
what window manager you use?

If you don't use a window manager nothing can be moved at all.
maybe that's a simple answer?

OK as I understand it I need to set _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW in the WM for the icon-widget. I use jwm. I tried to use "gtk_window_set_keep_below (window, TRUE)" but fore some reason I get a warning "warning: passing argument 1 of ‘gtk_window_set_keep_below’ from incompatible pointer type" for the gboolean type and I have glib. Realy strange. I will try to do it with atoms now.


By the way this "_NET_WM_TYPE_DESKTOP" is it only for the desktop or can I use it and still get things shown above the desktop background?