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Notification bubles are transparent for mouse clicks - How its done?

Asked by Jirka Daněk

A programming question.
I have spent quite a few hours searching notify-osd code, but still it is unclear to me how you archieve that click-through behaviour.
The bubble window does have set few event masks on mouse (in bubble.c). I know it need it to know that mouse is hoovering above it and the bubble should go blurry. But how you pass the mouse events to underlying windows than?

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Jirka Daněk (juraad) said : 		#1

I think I got It! IMHO its the update_input_shape (window, 1, 1); method, that sets the input shape to 1x1 pixel square in the corner of every bubble. That is why notify-osd has to do mouse polling.

It is a shame QT4 cannot do just that. There is only setMask(), which (optionally) clips mouse, but _always_ clips visibility :(

BTW, I found it in revision 1, much easier to navigate than current sources ;-)