-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue November 25 2003 19:23, Didier Verna wrote: > I don't quite understand what that means... but I see that enabling > icons on the desktop actually creates a "fake" root window named "KDE > Desktop", which explains the problem: xrootconsole creates a child of the > root window, and is in override_redirect mode, and calls XLowerWindow, > which makes it obscured by the KDE Desktop one[1]. > > That design sounds strange to me. What's the reason for creating a > new fake root window instead of drawing the icons on the real root one ? No idea, we used to do that in KDE 1.x I believe but there were some unsolvable problems with that approach. Something to do with repaint events and/or drag & drop and/or focus handling, but I don't know the details. > Also, do you know if the desktop reparents all direct children of the root > window to its KDE Desktop one ? If so, it should also do it for > override_redirect ones. I do not know. > > You can try if enabling the option "Allow programs in desktop window" > > helps. > > Nope. What does it do in actuality ? It designates the desktop window as a virtual root window I believe. Cheers, Waldo - -- bastian@xxxxxxx -=|[ SUSE, The Linux Desktop Experts ]|=- bastian@xxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE/w8K+N4pvrENfboIRArK9AKCJVysUIbYTCTo5yrWUyWdsbtpKZACeKB65 lYbWsjYvsbGycpEuSrSJSFw= =IZwX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.