Enable the Disabling of Certain Applications

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Ardesia becomes slightly unusable because it won't ignore my status bar, so it 
will write in this region and not let me do normal things, like switch to 
different workspaces or choosing different windows, which I normally do through 
my status bar (in the window manager dwm, which comes with its own status bar). 
I think this could be easily solved by allowing users to selectively disable 
certain applications from being affected by ardesia, the way the program 
Easystroke does (another program written for tablet PC users, by Tom Jaeger). 
For instance, I have excluded my dwm status bar from Easystroke gestures by 
clicking Preferences, "Add Exception", and then clicking the status bar. 
Hopefully, similar functionality can be added to Ardesia.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Try clicking on the status bar (in dwm; this program may or may not exist in 
other window managers/desktop environments)
2. Ardesia will treat this program like any other part of the screen, making 
the status bar unusable.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I would prefer Ardesia to ignore my status bar.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
The latest subversion in ArchLinux 64-bit, on a Fujitsu T900 tablet PC.

Please provide any additional information below.
Thanks for the very nice program.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by s...@archlinux.us on 21 Jun 2011 at 7:16

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This could be an interesting feature. Anyway, do you know that if you click on 
the mouse pointer icon you will able to click to an windows below the 
annotations?

Original comment by al...@paranoici.org on 21 Jun 2011 at 9:00

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Original comment by al...@paranoici.org on 21 Jun 2011 at 9:01

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Let see that you can have the some behaviour configuring the window manager to 
put your preferred application above Ardesia. For furthermore info please try 
to see the documentation of your preferred window manager.

Original comment by al...@paranoici.org on 21 Jun 2011 at 11:55

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Original comment by al...@paranoici.org on 22 Jun 2011 at 12:03

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Original comment by al...@paranoici.org on 2 Aug 2011 at 1:53

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|  Let see that you can have the some behaviour configuring the window manager

Sorry, I dont catch u here.
What do u mean?
Cheers,

MJF

Original comment by hell.j....@gmail.com on 26 Aug 2011 at 6:49

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It is possible see that exist a desktop area reserver in the screen for example 
in
openbox are called desktop margins
http://nomius.blogspot.com/2007/01/margins-in-openbox.html

In this way always the window don't hide the application in the margin. In this 
way you can preserve to see and use for example your panel with Ardesia

Original comment by pilolli....@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2011 at 3:36

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Anyway, I think that your suggested task is very difficult to do in a cross 
plattform way and then I think that this will be postponed depending on the 
project luck.
A linux only feature can be done checking the window focus; help and new 
committers are welcome!

Original comment by pilolli....@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2011 at 3:40

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Original comment by al...@paranoici.org on 11 Oct 2011 at 4:28

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Original comment by pilolli....@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2012 at 7:25

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This issue is closed as invalid Ardesia stay on the top if you want use program 
then click on the mouse icon.

Original comment by pilolli....@gmail.com on 30 Jul 2013 at 11:11

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