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How to make VLC click through

I have been all over the web looking for a solution to this problem!
I'm looking for a way to make my VLC window "click through" on linux.
I have found some python code here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11917174/3426514 that says it can solve the problem, but I dont know how to apply that answer to my VLC window.
Is there a way to make a bash script that i can execute after vlc has started that will make the vlc window click-through? Or anything else, like a CCM plugin or a vlc plugin or magic foo?
I'm on ubuntu 14.04 if that is helpful :)
Edit: Another implemetation, part of the notifications code:
https://github.com/dkasak/notify-osd-customizable/blob/master/src/bubble.c#L1608
Edit2: A SVG Implementation, dont think this applies, but it is kinda relevant https://superuser.com/questions/699289/making-cairo-clock-click-through-able-cairo-graphics
Edit3: The used to be a compiz plugin called ghost a long long time ago https://github.com/compiz-reloaded/compiz-plugins-experimental
Edit4: To address the downvote to close: I expect the actual code to do this would be a few lines at most, i just have no clue how to do it. If there is something that I can provide to narrow the focus or provide more information, I will gladly do so.
Edit 5: Another related question. Create a click through window for Linux

You can have VLC write to the desktop background, then set all your app windows to be partially transparent. Output to Background is a VLC option. What you want is backwards from that, where VLC is overlayed on top of everything else, but ignored for user input, however if you don't mind going the other way, it's "already in there" 8-)

Get focus on tkinter program after pc is unlocked

I have a tkinter program written in python 3.3.3. I see myself in the need of making the the program get focus when the user unlocks the computer. I don't really know how to go ahead and start with this, users have a .exe version of the program that I created with cxfreeze. I f i need to modify the .py and create another .exe, that wouldn't be a problem.
After some research I found that one can use the ctypes module to lock the computer, but it's not very helpful because i need to know if it is locked or unlocked. I also saw commands from win32com, but i can't seem to be able to find a way to trigger a command when it gets unlocked.
What is the best way to get focus on my program after the computer is unlocked??
Any help is greatly appreciated.

I cannot answer this specifically for 'unlock' event (if there even is one in the GUI; I can't find one by cursory search.).
But I think the real answer is to change the question. Having a program simply take focus when user unlocks the display is very un-Windows-ish behavior. The Windows user expects to see the desktop just as s/he left it before the display was locked -- why does s/he want to see your program on top when unlocking, regardless of why Windows might have locked the display?
Maybe you want to recast your program as something that runs in the background and pops up a notification (in the notification area on the right side of toolbar) when it wants user to do something?

easygui CLOSE button (on top right of window) not functioning

i have created a chat system in python, using easygui for graphical user interface.
there are minimize,maximize and close button on top right of window,but the close button is not functioning at all.i just can use the exit button which i created to close the application. i had some search and found there is a problem with easygui, so is it totally impossible to fix this problem? or how can i remove that close button from top right as there is no use for it. its final year project and i'm afraid my advisor and supervisor want try that button and i lose mark because of no function
is there anyway to fix it or at least remove that close button?

This is likely past the due date for your assignment...sorry. But, that was a known limitation of easygui. An up-to-date version with a fix for that will be released soon. If you can't wait, you can take a look at it in development form: https://github.com/robertlugg/easygui

pywebkitgtk: Headless + full DOM interaction possible?

I am currently using the Python Webkit DOM Bindings to interact with a website programmatically and that's working for me.
The only problem is that it insists on opening a GTK window to display the page. Has somebody figured out a way to prevent it from opening a window? I.e. to use it in a headless way?
I'm initializing the view like this:
wv = pywebkitgtk.WebView(1024, 768, url=url)
which implicitly opens the GTK window and then I have an onload event-handler to manipulate the DOM.
I first thought of subclassing WebView, but that's not possible because it is a compiled class.
Any other ideas?

I'm the developer responsible for pythonwebkit, and I have a great deal of expertise covering these areas across several platforms. Realistically, you really, really want a completely "headless" WebKit port. In pythonwebkit that actually shouldn't be too hard to do, as there are only three "entry point" functions (one for window, one for document, and one for XMLHTTPRequest).
Really, somebody should do a proper "completely headless" port of WebKit. There already is an example program which is pretty close in WebKit's source tree, maybe that will get you started.

I've been using PyQT. PyQTWebView runs on Webkit and works great. Check out Ghost.py to get started, or use PyQT's API directly. Runs fully headless, and supports a decently recent build of Webkit.

You could try using Xvfb. I like using the command line and setting my display manually, but if you don't like that you could use this: http://cgoldberg.github.io/xvfbwrapper/

Can you get a handle to the GTK window and then call window.hide()? Otherwise, you might just have to use the full Webkit library.

Create a window and add the webview there, and never show the window..
I have webviews running without showing them, and can call a show_all if I need to show them.
web_view = pywebkitgtk.WebView()
window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
sw = gtk.ScrolledWindow(hadjustment=None, vadjustment=None)
sw.set_policy(gtk.POLICY_NEVER, gtk.POLICY_NEVER)
sw.add(web_view)
window.add(sw)
#window.show_all()

highlighting a window in GNOME's window list

In order to indicate activity, some applications (e.g. Pidgin) highlight their entry in GNOME's Window List panel widget (e.g. via bold font or flashing color). This indication is reset automatically when the window is activated.
I have a terminal application for which I would like to achieve the same thing (preferably via Perl, but Python would work too) - but I have no idea where to start. I imagine I'd first have to find the terminal window (based on window title) and then trigger some kind of GTK action.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

In a GTK application, use gtk_window_set_urgency_hint(). If you have a terminal application, you can't really do that - with libwnck you can get information about other application's windows, but as far as I know you can't get a GtkWindow pointer to another application's window.
May I suggest using the terminal beep? Of course this isn't a sure way to attract the user's attention, but some terminals are able to flash the title bar instead of beeping, or such things.

I'm not really into GTK programming, but as far as i know you want to set an "URGENT"-Flag for the Window which should be highlighted. Maybe this will get you any further. :)