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Everdras

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Registered: 2012-09-13

Posts: 37

Always-on-top preview of section of another window?

Is there any way I can get a preview of a section of another window, that will always stay on top in the top right-hand corner of my screen (except when I switch to that window)?

Specifically, I'm playing Runescape on a single monitor (laptop) and I frequently alt-tab out to do other things in the meantime. It would be awesome if I could get a window that's a preview of the 200x200 pixel square around my character so that I can see what he's doing (and when he's finished, so I can make him do something else).

Does anyone know of something that can get me this functionality?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Always-on-top preview of section of another window?

dwm uses tags, so one tag can be e.g. mpv playing a movie fullscreen, another tag will have a bunch of terminals and the same mpv playing the movie in a small window.
I don't know if it woks with Runescape.

Everdras

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Registered: 2012-09-13

Posts: 37

Re: Always-on-top preview of section of another window?

dwm uses tags, so one tag can be e.g. mpv playing a movie fullscreen, another tag will have a bunch of terminals and the same mpv playing the movie in a small window.
I don't know if it woks with Runescape.

Will it let me preview only a certain subsection of the window? Scaling a 1920x1080 window down to an unobtrusive size would probably not let me see my character anymore =\. Thanks for the suggestion though, I'm looking into dwm right now.

Also, this is what I'm ideally trying to get (notice the preview in the bottom-right):

http://i.imgur.com/JyfL4HD.png

moderator edit [ewaller] Changed image tags to over sized image to url tags

Last edited by ewaller (2014-03-01 20:52:53)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Always-on-top preview of section of another window?

It will scale down the whole window.

Speaking of scaling down: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_Code

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Always-on-top preview of section of another window?

Everdras,
Sorry, I had to edit your post for the reasons karol noted.  Some of our members are on slow or metered links, so we try to keep pictures small in non-picture threads.  If you want to set up a thumbnail that allows you to click through to the larger image, feel free.

Thanks

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Everdras

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Registered: 2012-09-13

Posts: 37

Re: Always-on-top preview of section of another window?

Everdras,
Sorry, I had to edit your post for the reasons karol noted.  Some of our members are on slow or metered links, so we try to keep pictures small in non-picture threads.  If you want to set up a thumbnail that allows you to click through to the larger image, feel free.

Thanks

Ah sorry about that.