Compiz recently has been working on a plugin that lets you make a window temporarily transparent to clicks and other inputs. Unless I'm mistaken, it's called ghost. A similar plugin is called dodge.

For example: if I'm keeping a video window on top (watching it while I work), and have a word processor below, then if I need to select a word below my video, I can do this without having to lose my video window's visibility. It can be frustrating to have to hunt down the window and bring it back on top again.

NOTE: I do not wish this to be a default-enabled plugin (bad idea, I think). I just want it to be present in Intrepid so I don't have to use an unsupported version of Compiz Fusion.

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