Software :: Desktop Widget System With Overlay / Transparency?
Jul 11, 2011
I finally dropped Gnome and am trying to put together my own custom Xclient-style desktop, with Xmonad as my WM. My question: Do any of the desktop widget systems out there support fixed, transparent overlay of the screen? My idea was something like this: I want, for example, my desktop clock widget not to be stuck in some dock taking up screen space; but instead, it would overlay the screen in one corner, with its background transparent. That way I could always see it, but it wouldn't gobble up screen space in a separate menu bar.
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Jan 22, 2011
I'm running KDE on Fedora 13 and was trying to alter some display settings so that the windows wouldn't maximize when dragged to the edge of the screen. I did that, but at one point "Kwin" crashed, and now there's some odd things happening.
1. I get the "drag me" palm when I'm mousing over the desktop and if I click, I can drag the background around as if it were a window.
2. My "maximize" "minimize" and "close" buttons don't work.
3. It appears nothing in the titlebar of windows works: can't drag them, can't shade or do anything "clickable" -- close, min, max, nothing works.
I tried returning the settings to their original state but it didn't help.I tried restarting the computer too, and that didn't help. I'm guessing something crashed and a setting got hard set that shouldn't be. I'm also guessing that if I rename a .kde/something folder it will reset to defaults. What .kde folder should I play with?
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Oct 1, 2010
i remember when i used to use kubuntu i had this widget to put little yellow notes in the desktop, it was really usable to me because i always forget what i'm supposed to do xD, anyway i'm trying to find that widget now but i can't remember the name, could anyone here please give me the name or the link to download it?
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Jan 22, 2011
On Fedora 14 KDE 64 there is no show desktop widget enabled by default, listed as available widgets, or listed in get hot new stuff as being available for download. How can I enable this basic functionality?
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Feb 6, 2011
I have been enjoying my newly installed openSuse installation for the past two weeks. I used it to run on a free computer I received so I didn't have to purchase that other operating system. It has come a long way since my last tinkering with linux/unix in college 12 years ago!I think that I noticed a problem with the calendar widget 1.0. When you change the month, the days don't update in the calendar.
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Jul 13, 2010
Is there any way where i can program a widget to display the status of different services. This widget should also be able to auto-update the service status if the service is being toggled with.
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Jun 26, 2010
I seem to have lost my show desktop widget. There is just the red x as shown in the screen cap. I did try to uninstall and reinstall it but no luck. Does anyone know how i can get it back?
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Dec 27, 2010
the little four squares in a grid beside the KDE launcher. Looked through all the Plasma widgets and didn't see this one. How do I get it back? Tried everything I could think of
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Jun 19, 2010
This works on my Slackware64 13.1 using KDE 4.4.4, Conky version 1.8.0. This is a simple .conkyrc tweak that doesn't need feh, it doesn't have the distracting faun shadow-border and most importantly, it doesn't disappear when you click your desktop (On my system anyway). These are the relevant sections to edit:
Code:
own_window_colour black
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_argb_130
own_window_type override
own_window yes
I found that getting rid of the own_window_argb_values yes suggested in other fixes and replacing it with a specific alpha and then changing window type to override solved all my issues. I've noticed no bugs or strange happenings. This seems to be a common problem with a lot of workaround solutions. I think this is a much more elegant way. Edit: Not persistant... After 2 reboots it's back to normal.
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Jun 6, 2010
In ubuntu I noticed that some apps (vlc, tweetdeck, iplayer) dont allow transparency in the system menu. This isn't a massive issue, although I'd like to know if it is possible to enable transparency, and keep the uniform look.I've tried changing the icons within the application, however it often refuses to open afterwards
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Sep 3, 2009
I'm trying to write a program which would get information from a webpage and display the information on my desktop sort of like a widget. I kind of remember there being something like this already made, but for the life of me I can't remember what it's calledDoes anyone know?
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Jul 25, 2011
[url] I ended up copying the text to read the article.
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Jul 21, 2011
Unsure of what caused this but please reference the screenshot to see my problem. I'm not using any special graphics driver, just whatever the distro decided to use upon install.
[theophan@porter ~]$ sudo uname -a
Linux porter 2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 6 13:58:54 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[theophan@porter ~]$ lspci |grep Radeon
[code]....
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Aug 28, 2010
I have two almost identical images of the same size that I want to compare. I'd like to over-lay them one on top of the other and vary each image's transparency so that I can compare them. Anyone know of any software that does this?
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Oct 26, 2010
I wish to set up a PC based media server in our legion. I would like to run the cable feed through a TV card & then overlay service announcements onto the screen at scheduled times. I will buy a desktop box and add a tuner card. Ubuntu 10.04 is my OS of choice.
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Jun 14, 2011
Once I launch google chrome
14.0.792.0 (Developer Build 88942 Linux) Ubuntu
(problem happens across various chrome versions and firefox too)
and I visit a site with graphics, still image or ....., I get a screen overlay of the website image positioned near top left of my monitor which overlays its graphics on top of windows of other applications. Interestingly, when I kill chrome the image disappears, then reappears on re-launch of chrome. Somehow chrome is controlling the rendering of its video memory, from killed tabs, outside of its own window.
This I have seen for firefox as well. Its been happening for few months, not on every browser launch but daily nonetheless. The video corruption also prevents mouse cursor cut N paste of text on any application which happens to have its window overlayed in this manner.
I have all the latest updates
ubuntu 11.04
nvidia driver 270.41.19
screen captures of offending overlay do not show up, though I could photograph my screen if need be. Have stopped using beta chrome daily builds, now using default google chrome to verify whether symptoms disappear.
I see no apparent errors in system log or X server log
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Nov 20, 2010
I just set-up my fedora-14 live usb on an 8gb usb hard drive but I see the space left on '/' is less than 800mb (I created a 3.5gb persistent file) like so:
Code:
livecd-iso-to-disk
--unencrypted-home --home-size-mb 3500
--overlay-size-mb 3500 Fedora-14-x84_64-Live-Desktop.iso /dev/sdc1
but I still don't have much space to install programs.
Is there a way to trick yum into installing programs under /home/liveuser/programs instead ?:
Code:
[liveuser@localhost ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/live-rw 3.0G 2.8G 223M 93% /
tmpfs 1002M 352K 1002M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 7.4G 2.0G 5.1G 28% /mnt/live
/dev/loop5 3.2G 130M 2.9G 5% /home
varcacheyum 1002M 0 1002M 0% /var/cache/yum
/tmp 1002M 92K 1002M 1% /tmp
vartmp 1002M 0 1002M 0% /var/tmp
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Feb 13, 2010
I am trying to create a LiveUSB with persistent overlay. Here is what I am doing ...
1. I create my own LiveCD image.
# LANG=C livecd-creator --config=centos-livecd-desktop.ks --fslabel=CentOS-5.4-<arch>-LiveCD
2. Insert and format the USB (I'd tested FAT and EXT).
3. Create the filesystem on the USB.
# livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 2500 CentOS-5.4-i686-LiveCD.iso /dev/sda1
4. Test it.
# umount /dev/sda1
# sudo kvm -hda /dev/sda1 -m 256 -vga std
The process seems to be fine but when I boot I receive the message: "Unable to find persistent overlay using temporary" complaining about failing mount /overlay.
If I watch inside LiveOS/ I can find the overlay file: overlay-jimezam_lab-d9d04988-3b00-4a2d-8207-43007ac71ef1.
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Aug 12, 2010
I have followed a few guides on using video overlays to obtain a watermark. i am suppose to use the Bluescreen video effect along with the composite transition in kdenlive.
I run the following versions of software:
lucid lynx 10.04
FFMPEG compiled from svn
x264 compiled from git
Kdenlive 7.7.1
Kino 1.3.4
melt 0.5.6 from a PPA
Medibuntu repos
My video I want the watermark over is a kino captured file which is dv avi type 2 (open dml).I have done Bluescreen video effect along with the composite transition but the video clip which the video watermark plays on top of ends up getting darker. for the bluescreen color i have chosen red which is the closest red i could pick next to the spinning logo. the lighting changes on it and gives it an undesirable effect as far as how dark it it. i tried other colors but then the logo either disappears or the spinning logos black video background covers up my video. the reason for my "video" watermark is because it is a spinning logo (not a picture) which can be obtained in .mp4 format here:[url]
My goal is to put that on top of some xbox 360 modern warfare 2 gameplay. i haven't uploaded an example of how dark it makes the footage look yet but it does.
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May 20, 2010
I download DVDRip's, and as you know they have a small resolution.Now what i want is for the subtitles to show in the black part below the movie/picture, and not in the movie
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Jun 5, 2010
i have custom programs written in Basis pro5. Standard output to a pdf virtual printer works fine. Using pdftk to overlay on to a form is hit or miss.... There are products out there like Unform that are just too expensive for my company. i have purchased another product from a company that prints the forms to the laser perfectly but i am incapable of capturing them and saving them as pdf's for archiving/emailing/faxing and i don't much care for this company.
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Jul 20, 2011
a server at work has been accessed through the desktop environment as root. I know this is a risk and since I have never done it before I was wondering if there are any files created by the desktop that could compromise the system and how could I clean it up.
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Feb 25, 2010
How can I access files of my Windows desktop from Ubuntu desktop while using Ubuntu?
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Jul 7, 2010
I am trying to connect an Ubuntu 10.04 desktop system wirelessly to another desktop that is directly connected to a cable modem via dlink wireless router and ethernet card. I have not been able to connect on the second system (Ubuntu) to the wireless router.
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Dec 3, 2009
i am trying to get centos 5.4 installed and bootable on my 16gb flash drive, with persistent overlay using and ext3 formatted drive.i want to be able to boot into centos and be able to have all updates from yum, etc, saved when shutting down for my situation i cannot use vfat.
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Jan 27, 2011
I installed the new KDE 4.6 after considering a change from XFCE.The issue is that I get no clock widget, but instead a red x.
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Feb 21, 2011
I was wondering if there was a sports scoreboard widget or something along the lines of that, that I can put on my desktop. I have KDE. I've searched around but haven't been able to find anything.
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Apr 12, 2011
How do I remove the overlay scrollbars, and get the classic scrollbars?
I've tried code...
Also it is possible to remove those resize triangles in the lower right corners of resizeable windows?
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May 26, 2010
Is there any way to get some transparency in this part? I have compiz installed and I'm using an emerald theme.
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Mar 3, 2010
I just wondering if there is such widget that I can put 'suspend to disk' and/or 'suspend to ram' onto my main panel like the logout button.I do not use 'Application Launcher' much but that is the only place I can find 'suspend to disk/ram' options/buttons.
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