Re: How do I overlay the Gnome Panel?

[Michael ROGERS <M Rogers cs ucl ac uk>]

>If the WM understands GNOME hints, you should be able to set the layer
>to ABOVE_DOCK, and that should work.

I don't think there is support for above-dock windows in the draft WM spec,
(it uses semantic hints to indicate the type of window to the window
manager, rather than specific layer or decoration hints) so you might want to 
email the wm-spec-list and describe your requirements, to make sure something 
suitable gets added to the new spec.

As for hiding the cursor, I guess you could set it to a transparent pixmap
using gdk_create_cursor_from_pixmap (?).

Michael