Idea #13652: 'Ghostable' windows

An interesting hack I saw in some utility for Windows a while ago, I can't remember what the app was called, is you could 'ghost' a window, which would put it 'always on top', transparent, and in a state where you couldn't click on it, so it was always on top of everything but you could still work beneath it.

Now, this is seldom an incredibly useful thing to do, but sometimes it's nice to use on a buddy list or an email client when you're waiting on something or to watch a video without really losing and desktop space to do other things. It's a little confusing at first, but after a while it's pretty easy to focus between different things.

This could be a creative option to have when you right-click (by convention) the title bar along with Maximize and Minimize, making the window only interactable when selected from a task list or alt-tab.

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