XFCE video is always-on-top

[sxiii]

Greetings @aaahh

I'm having an issue with video being over everything. I do see that mouse cursor changes when I move it around; but video doesn't allow me to see the windows themselves.

Do you have any ideas on why's that?

[mmhobi7]

The Xwinwrap settings

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On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 12:41 PM Dennis Ivanov ***@***.***> wrote: Greetings @aaahh <https://github.com/Aaahh> I'm having an issue with video being over everything. I do see that mouse cursor changes when I move it around; but video doesn't allow me to see the windows themselves. Do you have any ideas on why's that? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#3>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AA6IMXHAWXPHX65S7ZLCQJLRFFEDPANCNFSM4K5VWP3Q> .

[sxiii]

I didn't changed anything, just run ./download.sh then ./install.sh and finally atv4wall.

[mmhobi7]

The xwinwrap settings in the atv4wall script are set for Ubuntu not xfce.

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On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 1:04 PM Dennis Ivanov ***@***.***> wrote: I didn't changed anything, just run ./download.sh then ./install.sh and finally atv4wall. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#3>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AA6IMXB7VJ323L64WQ3IHMDRFFG3HANCNFSM4K5VWP3Q> .

[sxiii]

Not fully sure what you mean @aaahh ... That the scripts would work only on Ubuntu? But which version exactly? With which WM environment? Any more details on that?

[mmhobi7]

My apologizes @sxiii
To further clarify, the issue lies in how the video is drawn in relationship to the other windows. This is done using xwinwrap I modified here: https://github.com/Aaahh/xwinwrap/tree/2d9e07156a441f8ab2be10918c8978d0bcc38008
The line in question that I believe is affecting you is: https://github.com/Aaahh/wallpaper-aerial/blob/master/atv4wall#L144
In this line, xwinwrap is set with -ovr -s -fdt -ni -nf, try chaning ovr to ov. (and for kicks change it for the other lines with xwinwrap too).
I think I might have a solution to this but I won't get to it until much later.

Anyway I have it running on unity, i3. It should also work on gnome but I do believe it was glitchy.

The desktop image is set using dconf but that won't break the script and shouldn't matter nevertheless.

I should someday rewrite this whole program sometime soon when I get the chance.

[mmhobi7]

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/6ty3vj/how_to_create_a_video_background_for_the_xfce/
Seems that desktop icons, right click, and wallpaper are drawn to the same window. This means that either a video can be played or you can have desktop icons, but not both.

if you choose the video, change line 144 to
mpv -wid=0 --really-quiet --panscan="1.0" --autofit-larger=100%x100% --hwdec=auto --input-ipc-server=/tmp/mpvsocket $FILE1 &

[sxiii]

Oh thanks @aaahh for clarifications. I will experiment on your advices soon and I'll close the issue after I realize it works at least in any way (I'm okay to loose icons; but my problem was that video was actually over everything; including windows...). Thanks again