On 1/8/2011 12:11 PM, phanisvara das wrote: > On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 22:36:01 +0530, Kevin O'Brien<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I would like to have a sidebar on my desktop to display things like >> system monitors, weather info, etc. IS there a way to do that in KDE 4+? >> If not, is there a better way to do this? What I would like is the have >> this info always on top, without hiding anything underneath it. >> > easy: just add another panel by right-clicking on the desktop. (you'll have > to 'unlock' the widgets first, if they are locked.) in your case i'd choose > an 'empty' panel, which will by default appear on top of the screen, i think. > at the right of that panel you find a diamond-type of thingy; click on that > to open config. options for that new panel. one of the controls says 'edge' > or 'screen edge'; drag that to the side of the screen where you want the > panel. under 'more options' you can choose if application windows can cover > the panel, or move under it (which is what you want, if i understood > correctly). > Thanks, that got me the panel. But what I really want is to keep other windows from any overlap with the panel, i.e., I don't want application windows to go over or to go under. I s there a setting for that?
Thank you, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [email protected] Linux User #333216 ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
