Re: GWorkspace as windowmanager?

[Alex Perez]

Enrico Sersale wrote:

> On 2004-06-13 02:07:16 +0300 Alexander Malmberg <alexander@malmberg.org> 
> wrote:
>
> > Enrico Sersale wrote:
> >
> > > It seems that there are some restrictions in setting the event-mask
> > > in XSelectInput(); I never used XLib and I didn't know this. I can't
> > > get mouse and key events beacause the window manager has already
> > > selected them.
> > >
> > > Is there any way to go around this?
> >
> >
> > I've looked into this a bit on other occasions, and iirc, it's simply an
> > X thing. As long as there's a window manager, it will (by definition) be
> > listening for events on the root window, and no other program can get
> > events from the root.
>
> Ok. End of the dream...

Not necessarily....I suggest you talk to the xorg-developers. Maybe we 
could get something to allow us to do this added? They're relatively 
nice people, and some spend time in #freedesktop and maybe #xorg on 
FreeNode.