Docklet that activates Compiz's widget layer

I already made a branch that does this. It requires Compiz's dbus enabled. The problem is... it just doesn't work how you would hope.

Ok so I totally misread your bug report. I apologize for that. :-)

What you want can be done now, by yourself. You just have to create a new launcher with the following command:

dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.compiz /org/freedesktop/compiz/widget/allscreens/toggle_key org.freedesktop.compiz.activate string:"root" int32:`xwininfo -root|grep id:|awk '{ print $4 }'`

This will toggle the widget layer. Then you can assign a name/icon however you want for the launcher.

Here's the sh file I pointed the launcher to.

Here's the icon i used (it's Leopard's one, but Screenlet ships one which is GPLed).
I also reduced the time for the widget layer to appear. I reckon integration of this isn't planned in Docky ?

Correct. There is no reason to put this directly into Docky. If users want this functionality they just need to do what you did and make a launcher.

There is already a keyboard shortcut for this built-in to gDesklets and you can use the trick on the Compiz wiki to put desklets on the widget layer. However, I think this also puts configuration windows there no matter how you slice it, so we could look into it for the next release.

Changed in gdesklets:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist