Hello,
I tried to make aDesklets work with ROX-Filer pinboard (the desktop) but deklets are displayed under it. First I thought that aDeklet did not work with such desktop environment but only with plain X root windows but when I tried with nautillus it wroked.
Maybe there's something not to complicated to do to make aDesklets work with ROX-Filer ?

Thanks in advance,

Cyrille

I too have Rox filer, so I'll say a bit more about this issue.

If you turn on the "override window managerr control of the pinboard and pannels" in the compatibility section of rox's options, adesklets can get on the top of it, instead of under it. note that i use icewm as a window manager, but i don't know if it is relevat. appart from when I use adesklets, I have the exact same behavior whether it turn it on or off.

So for me, adesklets works. but with one limitation: the desklets is INITIALY displayed under rox when rox manages the desktop. by initialy, I mean when I launch a new desklet from the command line or when I restart the desklet. one click on the desktop and it turn visible. Note that dekslets appear over the rox desktop when I open my session (migh be only caused by timing in startup, not sure). The desklets are also invisible (under rox) while being moved, so not so easy to put at the right place.

This certainly looks like a bug in rox, but if IIRC, i did not have the problem with rox + gdesklets. not sure though. It's been a while.

Now that i think of it, there is another issue with adesklets and rox (is icewm involved too? not sure). It is about transparency. the Rox desktop window covers all the desktop, so it is rox who manages the wallpaper. tranparents terminals i have tried (aterm Eterm gnome-terminal) have no problem with that. but adesklets do not take rox's wallpaper to make it's transparency, but the one set by icewm (in my case). So I have to set my wallpaper twice to the same image (one in rox, once in icewm), to have transparency that looks like transparency.

just a very small post to confirm that adesklets appearing over or under ROX during session opening depends on the order of applications start up. I just changed the order of launching, and now desklet appear under it, until I click.

Don't know if this info can be usefull or not, but just in case, better say it than not.

Yes, I defined a debug() function/macro you can use. It follows the same semantic as printf. (See man 3 printf for details, or just perform a grep debug * from src/ to have some usage example).

For having debug() actually generating instumentation code (not only being a nop), you need to pass along the --enable-debug to configure at configuration time.

One last tip: there is no need to go through the whole configure/make/make install process everytime you make a change. Just do once:


And then, for compiling and debugging, do, as many time as needed from src/:


And yes: I do not know if ROX-Filler desktop detection is related to nautilus desktop detection. If it is, fine. If it is not, do not alter the xwindow_get_nautilus_desktop() function, but create instead a new xwindow_get_rox_filer_desktop() or similar that you will call appropriately from xwindow_get_root_window().