Anyway, if you opt to go with inputwin, it will work.

Well, I actually like that behavior, can make some things handy, but I see that for your case it might be a problem.

Depending on what you want, you can create an input window with ecore_x_window_input_new(), it can be of size 1×1 but it will work if you grab input there. You can use e17 code for e_grabinput() as example. If you want real examples on how to get typed keys with modifiers and all, use /e/src/modules/conf_keybindings/e_int_config_keybindings.c since it does that.

collections {
group {
name: “main”;
parts{
part {
name: “event_area1″;
type: RECT;
mouse_events: 1;
description {
state: “default” 0.0;
color: 0 0 0 0;
rel1 {
relative: 0.0 0.0;
offset: 0 0;
}
rel2 {
relative: 1.0 1.0;
offset: -1 -1;
}
}
}

}
}
}

something wrong with my last post. the window is all transparent but also cannot get mouse event.

part {
name: “event_area1″;
type: RECT;
mouse_events: 1;
description {
state: “default” 0.0;
color: 0 0 0 0;
rel1 {
relative: 0.0 0.0;
offset: 0 0;
}
rel2 {
relative: 1.0 1.0;
offset: -1 -1;
}
}
}

but the rectangle is black.