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bill

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Tuesday, August 3rd 2004, 4:28pm

Persistent Banners

Hi,

I am trying to come up with a way to have a persistent (always present) banner with KDE. If possible, I would like a small gif to appear at the top and bottom of the desktop. I would also like them to always be in front of any other windows on the desktop. Is this easy to do? Do I need to write my own application to handle this?

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Tuesday, August 3rd 2004, 4:57pm

You could put the icon as a program button on kicker and on a kicker child panel which you move either to the top or to the side you want the icon to appear.

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Tuesday, August 3rd 2004, 7:25pm

Re: Persistent Banners

You could use kstart:
kstart --alldesktops --keepabove --skippager --skiptaskbar --type Override kuickshow /path/to/image.gif

You may also consider to add the --nograb option.
"kstart --help" gives you help on the options.

The only thing I didn't manage to control was the position of the displayed gif. Normally the option "--geometry -0-0" should move the window to the bottom right corner, but that doesn't seem to work with kuickshow?! Maybe with a different image viewer?