Set tkinter top-level window to "always on visible workspace"

[Cameron Simpson]

On 29Mar2022 06:10, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 at 06:08, Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Am 28.03.22 um 20:03 schrieb Chris Angelico:
>> > Would you accept a solution that involves a subprocess call?
>> >
>> > wmctrl -ir {id} -b add,sticky
>> >
>> > Now, the only problem is... figuring out your window ID. Worst case,
>> > parse wmctrl -lG to get that info, but it might be possible to get the
>> > window ID from Tkinter itself.
>>
>> Sure: Call "winfo_id()" on the toplevel. You might want to reformat in
>> it in hex format, which is the usual way to pass these IDs around. Tk
>> actually returns it in hex format, but Tkinter reformats it as an integer.
>>
>
>Ah sweet, there you go then. (As you can see, I don't use Tkinter
>much.) I have no idea how wmctrl does its work,

It sets properties on the window itself. A window manager can listen for 
such changes and honour the settings.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>