Screenlets & Compiz-fusion Widget plugin [QUESTION]

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MetalWarrior · Post by **MetalWarrior** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:58 am

Hi,
what should I do in order to force screenlets to be considered widgets? I've added "screenletsd.py" in the Widget Windows property of the Widget Layer plugin (as read somewhere on the net), but it does not work.. Widgets do not appear on the widget layer.... :-/

roderick · Post by **roderick** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:18 pm

Do you have the widget plugin loaded and working?

MetalWarrior · Post by **MetalWarrior** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:13 pm

roderick wrote:Do you have the widget plugin loaded and working?

Yes, it is active... I can see the "widget layer" by pressing SHIFT+F9... but the screenlets are not within that layer

Maybe I should specify something else in the "Widget Windows" field of the widget plugin??

MetalWarrior · Post by **MetalWarrior** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:22 pm

BUMP!
No suggestions? Anyone using screenlets + compiz widget plugin here?

djscribble · Post by **djscribble** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:03 pm

Thanks for the bump -- i missed this one when it first came through...

I currently use all of the above, and in RE to screenlets, you have to go to the widget plugin and manually tell it that screenletsd is supposed to be a widget (and then when you right-click the screenlet it will automatically go to the correct layer)

i can send a screenshot if you want.

MetalWarrior · Post by **MetalWarrior** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:29 pm

Thanks... but how did you tell the widget plugin to consider screenletsd (and so, all the screenlets) a widget? I've tried both "screenletsd" and "screenletsd.py" in the "Widget Windows" configuration parameter of compiz-fusion (0.5.2) widget plugin, but it still does not work :-/

I've also right-clicked onto my widgets and in the Window menu item I chosed "Widget"... it does not work for me... I'm surely missing something..

djscribble · Post by **djscribble** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:35 pm

I had to get an updated version of the widgets plugin. Here were the final directions that i followed to make everything work:

http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2007/07/ ... et-plugin/

MetalWarrior · Post by **MetalWarrior** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:40 pm

Ok,
I've read in this old thread that screenlets are UTILITY windows, so I've put UTILITY within the Widget Windows and now the screenlets moved onto the widget layer.. this can be the solution for my problem, if no other important applications that I'm using have UTILITY as window class..

MetalWarrior · Post by **MetalWarrior** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:06 pm

djscribble wrote:I had to get an updated version of the widgets plugin. Here were the final directions that i followed to make everything work:

http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2007/07/ ... et-plugin/

My solution does not work, since also the application switcher is put onto the widget layer.