OutputOnly windows

[Sam Spilsbury]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 21:37 +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Thierry Reding
>> <thierry.reding at avionic-design.de> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Is there any way to create an X window that is output only, similar to what
>> > InputOnly does, except for output? In other words: I want to create a window
>> > that displays a video image but does not capture input events. Input events
>> > should go to the window below instead.
>>
>> Mark it override-redirect and use XShape to remove the input shape.

Indeed. But using o-r will ensure that window managers don't treat it
like a normal window that the user can interact with (considering that
your window isn't going to be "normal" in terms of stacking, unless
there is a use case for that).

>
> The first part is optional, input shape is independent of o-r-ness.
>
> - ajax
>



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Sam Spilsbury