Re: Passing click events through Clutter Stage

[Tarnyko <tarnyko tarnyko net>]

Emmanuele Bassi writes: 

> 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.

OK, that's what I suspected ; thanks. 

> ciao,
>  Emmanuele. 
>
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Regards,
Tarnyko