Hi,

I'm new to KDE and have a system with two monitors. Each screen has an own panel with a "Show Desktop" widget on it.

Now I was wondering if it is possible to configure the "Show Desktop" widget so that only the windows of the corresponding screen are minimized. I have a monitoring application running on one of the screens and I want it to be always visible, no matter what I do on the other screen.

Is that possible?

Thanks and regards
jgdo

I've checked the code and it seems to set a flag which affects the entire of X (i'm not sure if KWin is involved however), so it does not look like this will be possible unfortunately.

I'm not sure if it will work, but as a workaround try setting the window to be always on top.
You can do this by right clicking on the window decoration of the window > More Actions > Keep Above Others.

Hi,

thanks for the lookup. Keep Above Others doesn't work unfortunately anyway since the window is still minimized when clicking "show desktop"

Regards
jgdo

you don't describe the output of the monitoring app, if it's text (or could be) maybe you could display the text output in a Konsole Widget (using a for loop and the tail command). There's also a tail and a stdin widget on looks-kde.org that could do similar.

Another thing you could try is writing a KWin script - which may be able to exclude the monitoring system window from Show Desktop, or something similar. If you have questions about KWin's scripting capabilities, I'd suggest checking the documentation on Techbase or asking in the KWin forum.