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Can I setup a "View only mode" for Awesome-WM?

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I'm using Awesome-WM and would like to setup a keyboard-toggle and/or window match rule that changes the way inputs are processed for that window. Basically I would like the option to mark a Window as "view only" so that no keyboard or mouse input is passed through to the program. My primary use case involves rdesktop which sadly doesn't have a way to connect to a remove machine in view-only mode and also is somewhat too greedy about detecting keyboard input, but I've also run into wanting this for other programs that I would like to monitor without accidentally passing them mouse activity. I've tried setting up a rule to disable the _focusable_ property, but this doesn't seem to have any effect: { rule_any = { class = { "rdesktop" } }, properties = { focus = false, focusable = false, floating = true, sticky = true, ontop = true, opacity = 0.5 } } All the other properties set here behave as expected, but the focus options do not disable the window from receiving focus and subsequent input events. Is there a way to configure this? As a bonus it would be nice to be able to setup a floating window as on-top but pass all input through to the window behind it. Is that a possibility?
Asked by Caleb (71800 rep)
Oct 13, 2015, 07:11 AM
Last activity: Oct 14, 2015, 06:27 AM