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A: Is there a way to add an image as a sticky note to my Unity Desktop?

Jacob VlijmShowing an image on your desktop Windows can be of different types. We do not only have "normal" windows, but also windows of (in our case) type "DESKTOP". Windows of type "DESKTOP" stay below everyting; even all items on your desktop show up above them. Therefore showing an image in a window ...

mook765
mook765
Amazing, I just tried your script on UbuntuStudio and it worked so far. Small caveat: as soon as I left-click somewhere on the Desktop the image disappears, the script is still running though. But this is probably related to the different DE. No need to improve the script if works on plain Ubuntu, I was just curious if it would work on my system too, upvoted... Have a nice day!
Jacob Vlijm
Jacob Vlijm
@mook765 ah, that is interesting, and probably easily fixable. Do you have wmctrl installed? If so, does the window still appear in wmctrl -l ?
@mook765 Added one line, does that make a difference?
mook765
mook765
wmctrl was not installed, so I installed it. The window is is listed with 0x03400003 -1 MookPC PortraitonMyDesktop and stay listed even when the Window disappeared.
Now the Window will stay allways on top.
Jacob Vlijm
Jacob Vlijm
@mook765 Ah, great! Thanks for testing and confirming :)
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@mook765 ^
mook765
mook765
I was to fast with the last comment, the window does not disappear anymore, but now it stay always on top of other windows.
Jacob Vlijm
Jacob Vlijm
11:15
Huh? That is of course not the intention...
Not sure what is the window manager of Studio? @mook765
There is another option, to set the window as a "normal" window, but keep below all other windows. The downside is that stuff on the desktop (folders) will appear below the window.
@mook765
mook765
mook765
If the script works as intended in plain Ubuntu, then you don't need to bother, for myself this is not important. UbuntuStudio is based on xfce, so that might be the point. I'm just here to learn a bit as I switched from Windows to UbuntuStudio about a year ago and I am still a newcomer, but totally happy with my decision. Thanks so far...
Jacob Vlijm
Jacob Vlijm
Cool, thanks! I don't have xfce atm, but will try if I have the opportunity :)
mook765
mook765
11:40
I guess you have more things on your to-do list, so I think we stop the discussion at this point, perhaps we meet another day here on AskUbuntu. I read a lot here and stumbled about your name many times. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with the community, I wish I could help as much as you...
sudodus
sudodus
12:40
@JacobVlijm, I upvoted your nice little script too :-)
Jacob Vlijm
Jacob Vlijm
@sudodus thanks :)
sudodus
sudodus
Please advice where to learn programming python. (I am rather good at bash, and long ago I programmed Fortran and C, so I can stand some difficulties.)
Jacob Vlijm
Jacob Vlijm
@sudodus The thing is, I don' t remember exactly how I started. It was with a very simple tutorial which I couldn' t find back later. Then started a simple project, constantly using Stack Overflow to look up things. Not really much of a help I am afraid :)
sudodus
sudodus
OK. I will look for tutorials via the internet. I think you are right, starting with a simple project is a good idea.

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