> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, george young wrote:
> 
> > I have a scrolledwindow containing a vbox containing a lot of gtkframes.
> > Each frame contains a bunch of boxes and buttons and entries and textwidgets.
> > If the user clicks anywhere inside the frame, I want to catch this and change the
> > frame's color and do some other things, then pass the click on down to whatever
> > (if any) widget is listening below.
> >
> > I have the vague notion this can be done with a transparent window, but I'm not
> > sure how.  How do I make the cover window not consume the event, and how do
> > I paste a window on top of my frame to start with?
> 
> To my knowledge, X doesn't support this sort of thing.  If you are

It is called an input only window and is used by window managers to 
provide system modal dialogs, among other things.

> thinking about transparent terminals, they are done using a trick.
> 
> James.
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