Floating desktop items

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Currently widgets sit directly on the desktop. That means they are hidden when I work with my computer. Is there a way to make them float on top of everything?

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Oh ok. So it is not really possible, I guess. Pity.

4

My conky clock is always on top of other windows - so if you can figure out a conky script to do what you want, then yes…

But desktop widgets can’t do it.

Here - some conky on top of Dolphin for good measure :stuck_out_tongue:

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lucky you. what would I do to entice this on my fresh Fedora 44 install?

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Try using conky…

conky.config = {
-- Conky settings
	background = true,
	update_interval = 5,
	double_buffer = true,
	no_buffers = true,

-- Window specifications
	gap_x = 310,
	gap_y = 5,
	alignment = 'top_right',
	own_window = true,
	own_window_type = 'dock',
	own_window_transparent = true,
	own_window_argb_visual = true,
	own_window_argb_value = 100,
	own_window_hints = 'undecorated,above,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
	own_window_class = 'conkyclock',

-- Text
	use_xft = true,
--	xftalpha = 0.5,
	font = 'Sakana :size=24',
--	font = 'SF Pro Display :black:italic:size=20',


	default_color = '#45B7D1',
};

conky.text = [[${time %H:%M}]];

This position is generally mostly out of the way for me, but I can toggle it off and on with my ‘launcher’ scripts, I have one to kill them all and then start a basic setup, another to check then either kill, or launch (the toggle) and finally one to launch all conkies including extra informational (like processes) which run for a while before timing out.

My default startup/refresher:

#!/bin/bash

killall conky
sleep 1
conky -d -c ~/Dropbox/Admin/conky/c0-time.conky
conky -d -c ~/Dropbox/Admin/conky/c0-date.conky
conky -d -c ~/Dropbox/Admin/conky/c2-network.conky
conky -d -c ~/Dropbox/Admin/conky/c4-disk.conky
conky -d -c ~/Dropbox/Admin/conky/c1-information.conky