On 12/06/2011 02:15 PM, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 01:01:13PM +0100, Axelle Apvrille wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> On my fvwm background, I have a background image, right? On this >> background image, I'd like to display in a corner a slide show of images. >> Any idea how to do this? >> As a first step, I don't even know how I could add an image on part of >> the root window. >> fvwm-root will change the entire root window, which is not what I am >> looking for. > It's none of those, as it happens. This also has nothing to do with FVWM, > you realise? > > What you're asking for is one of those desktop widget programs, like > adesklets or gdesklets (from Google) which I am sure will be able to do > this. > > Instead, what I would do for this is use FvwmButtons. > > Give it a colorset using RootTransparent, and whatever else you want. > > In the FvwmButtons definition, you should maybe apply a shapemask, it > depends on the effect you're after -- I'm thinking perhaps for rounded > corners? You'll want to also set: > > Style FvwmButtons-Alias !Borders, !Title, NeverFocus > > From this point on, for animated images, you should swallow an application > such as feh to enable random images. Likewise mplayer for streaming video. > > Other options you can investigate is using the "Unmanaged" style option > instead for different applications rather than using FvwmButtons. > > Note though this has nothing to do with the root window at all. It never > did.
Ah yes! So actually, it's just displaying a window (whatever app) and making it look like it's on the root window (everything transparent). I hadn't thought about this way. Thanks Axelle
