Re: Making a window that doesn't block mouse events to the root window (desktop)

[Alem Dain <alem dain gmail com>]

2005/7/18, Patrick Conheady <pcweirdo yahoo co uk>:
> G'day there,
>
> I'd like to have a non-editable text box layer just on
> top of my desktop so that it's behind everything, and
> have it pass all its mouse events to the desktop.
> While it should visibly cover part of the desktop, I
> don't want it to get in the way of desktop right-click
> menus.

I expect you want to use gdk_get_default_root_window(),
catch whatever events you want to forward to the root
window, modify the window parameter in the event
structure, and use gtk_event_put() to send the event
back.

-Alem