gdesklets doesn't use the widget layer in compiz for it's windows

[idefix]

gDesklets doesn't make use of the widget layer in Compiz.

The reason is that it doesn't flag the windows as being widgets - if it did then Compiz would pick this up and treat them as such.

I know that gDesklets need to be able to work without a compositing window manager, but this is just a property on the window, that currently only Compiz uses and as such should not adversely effect it's behaviour.

For compiz to see this, you need to set the _COMPIZ_WIDGET window property. This can be done without any adverse effect on it's behaviour when not using Compiz.

The code to do so is relatively simple - for each widget you need to do the following:

desklet_window.window.property_change("_COMPIZ_WIDGET",
                gtk.gdk.SELECTION_TYPE_WINDOW, 32, gtk.gdk.PROP_MODE_REPLACE, (True,))

[Bjoern Koch (h.humpel)]

Can someone confirm that this fix or work-around is working with and without compiz ?