title: Python: tell X to reserve screen space for application
body: <p>I am trying to solve the issue of reserving space on the screen for an application with X Window Manager (i.e. Linux platforms). I have seen <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3859045/preventing-window-overlap-in-gtk">this issue addressed and solved for Gtk</a> and I asked the prompted <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5829585/pyqt4-how-to-make-undercorated-window-with-reserved-space">the same question using Qt</a>. Since no one reacted to the Qt-specific question (which I also addressed in other forums), I thought I'd generalise my question:</p>
  <h3>Is there a universal, pythonic way to tell X to reserve screen space for an application?</h3>
  <p>Thanks,<br />
  Benjamin</p>