I was using my laptop in KDE the other day and thought it would be nice to have a one pixel battery meter that stayed always on top at the edge of the screen. I searched around and could find no projects that seemed to supply this, so I figured I would write my own.

Is there a way to do something like this in Perl? Write a floating graphic in X without the window manager putting a title bar on it and placing it where it wants. I assume there is but need a point in the right direction.

If it can't be done in Perl maybe someone can point me in the right direction for C/C++ (though I am much more comfortable with Perl).

I thought maybe Tk::Xlib would do it, but none of the demos did anything unmanaged and I haven't been able to construct a good google search to find what I need.

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In reply to Making Unmanaged X Graphics? by suaveant

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