I'm having trouble drawing a window from my extension

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I want to draw a window on top of everything else. I’ve spend 8 hours reading the source code from the gjs repository and some extension repository but I still have not figured it out. Can you please point me to the right direction?

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Hello, not sure if this helps but the basic idea is that you will have to create a Clutter.Actor. There are many different types of actors for different situations, if you just want to draw some shapes you can use a St.DrawingArea.

There are a few ways to get it to display on top of the screen, but the easiest may be to do something like this:

imports.ui.main.layoutManager.addTopChrome(actor);

Then you probably want to make sure to call layoutManager.removeChrome(actor); later.

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