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bcatt
May 5th, 2012, 12:18 AM
I am working on a few tools for personal use that I'll be serving from localhost. It would be really nice if I could just click the 'show desktop' button to see these tools. Screenlets looked hopeful, but I couldn't find what I was looking for. The only one I found for a custom url opens as a browser window without navigation area...I could easily accomplish this with a desktop link and a few lines of javascript, plus it's not on the desktop at all, which is what I'm looking for. I looked at the youtube screenlet and that is exactly how I would like to have my own localhost content display: right on the desktop without any browser border.

Can anyone tell me how to accomplish this, with or without screenlets? Thanks in advance.