gdesklets doesn't use the widget layer in compiz for it's windows

gDesklets doesn't make use of the widget layer in Compiz.

The reason is that it doesn't flag the windows as being widgets - if it did then Compiz would pick this up and treat them as such.

I know that gDesklets need to be able to work without a compositing window manager, but this is just a property on the window, that currently only Compiz uses and as such should not adversely effect it's behaviour.

For compiz to see this, you need to set the _COMPIZ_WIDGET window property. This can be done without any adverse effect on it's behaviour when not using Compiz.

The code to do so is relatively simple - for each widget you need to do the following:

desklet_window.window.property_change("_COMPIZ_WIDGET",
                gtk.gdk.SELECTION_TYPE_WINDOW, 32, gtk.gdk.PROP_MODE_REPLACE, (True,))