[dundee] X11 Programming in C

[Andrew Clayton]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:44:41 +0100, Nicholas Walker wrote:

> It seems that this only allows me to write to my desktop, not "above"

I think you mean root window.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_window

Things like nautilus will draw a widow over the root window for the
desktop

> everything. is this the case, as that's what im trying to achieve.

Create a borderless window with the above property
(_NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE), the size of your display.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html

Andrew