Re: Passing click events through Clutter Stage

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

On 14 November 2013 10:21, Tarnyko <tarnyko tarnyko net> wrote:

> I have the following problem : for UI usability reasons

this is a pretty weird "reason".

> I'd like pointer
> clicks events to be passed "through" the base Clutter Stage. That means, the
> stage shouldn't receive pointer events but they would be handled by whatever
> happens to be "under" it (another window, X root window...)

that cannot be done with X11. the only (sane) way to intercept events
is to be the window manager/compositor.

you can shape the window's input region in a particular way (e.g. make
a donut), but that has to be done with Xlib-specific API, and Clutter
does not provide any wrapper for it.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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