Compiz sets the _COMPIZ_WALLPAPER_SUPPORTED hint for requesting to draw the desktop background. There is a patch against Nautilus [1] available that uses this hint to draw the folder background with alpha=0.
I would like to bring up two issues: 1) We are a bit concerned because the hint is compiz-specific. Maybe you could agree on a name that is used for signalling that the CM wants to draw the desktop background? IMO *_WALLPAPER_SUPPORTED doesn't sound very concise either. 2) Wallpaper modification application Currently, when right-clicking the desktop one can also pick from a popup menu to change the wallpaper using a GNOME-specific application. This obviously is not adequate for CMs. Maybe they should be able to give a hint about the name of the .desktop file that should be launched to configure the desktop background? I am not sure whether it is adequate to depend on this very specific freedesktop.org spec, so maybe the CM should be forced to also specify a binary basename or path. But then again, .desktop files are way more flexible wrt startup notification, attempting to execute fallback binaries etc. Do we have to worry about remote sessions in this context? Note that on top of such a hint, a xdg-* application could be written which analyzes whether a CM is running, and runs the adequate background change application. best regards, Christian Neumair [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444320 -- Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list wm-spec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list