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Thijser
Asked: 2018-02-24 06:21:11 +0800 CST

How to make a tilda screen always on back as part of wallpaper

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I'm using tilda on 17.10 in order to create a terminal as part of my wallpaper. I have most of the graphics down (a fitting color scheme, transparent background etc. ). However one thing I can't get working is for tilda to be always on the back, right now tilda is transparent so I can see when a screen goes behind it, however when I click on such a screen I instead tend to end up clicking on the tilda screen instead.

I already know that 

wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b add,below

causes a terminal screen to go behind everything else, however I can't figure out how to make tilda do that on startup without also closing the tilda screen inimitably.

gnome wallpaper startup-applications tilda

2 Answers

  1. I have a small bash script for you:

    #!/bin/bash

#open tilda
tilda &
#wait a second to make sure tilda is open
sleep 1

wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b add,below

    copy the code above to a file for example my_tilda

    make it excutable

    sudo chmod 755 my_tilda

    test if it works

    ./my_tilda

    if it works you can move it to /usr/local/bin

    mv my_tilda /usr/local/bin/tilda_bg

    now you can use start it by:tilda_bg

    hope that helps you

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  2. I have had the same question right now, and it seems as if you have to not only disable 'Always on top', but also check 'Set as Desktop window'.

    At least that seems to have done it for me.

    $ tilda --version
Tilda 1.4.1
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