Re: GWorkspace as windowmanager?

[Alexander Malmberg]

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.

- Alexander Malmberg