Feature Request: Desklet to show web page

[zeigerpuppy]

It would be great to have a desklet that can be configured to show a webpage.

This could be used for monitoring dashboards or other uses (a weather radar site for instance).

Suggested Functionality

• set URL
• set to remember password if required for website
• set X/Y size of desklet window
• set zoom factor of website

[fredcw]

better-backgrounds applet will show a web page as background but the other features are not present - no auto update, no password, no resize or zoom.

[zeigerpuppy]

thanks @fredcw, that would be a good alternative for some use cases.

However, the use-case for a web-based dashboard is a bit different and would require authentication at least. Another alternative may be pinning a frameless web browser window. I seem to remember there's a method for doing that somehow...

[fredcw]

I've occasionally thought that this would be a good idea myself. Then you could have a constantly updating webcam image as your background for instance. I don't know how this could be done though.

[zeigerpuppy]

This program pins a window to the background... may be a starting point:

https://github.com/ujjwal96/xwinwrap

found that from this reddit thread

although, it doesn't stay pinned when using the cinnamon "show the desktop" option in hotcorners...

would be nice to be able to show desktop and have it be visible too.

[zeigerpuppy]

actually looks like the -fdt option does make it stick to the background

e.g.:

xwinwrap -b -s -st -sp -nf -fdt -- gifview -w WID mypic.gif -a

[zeigerpuppy]

apparently something like this can also be used to remove the UI elements from a (Firefox) window:

https://github.com/furycd001/dots/blob/master/Firefox/webview.css

So looks close to a solution...