intrusive transparent non clickable top layer?

[André Miranda]

Maybe that's what you're looking for:
https://github.com/anko/hudkit

Cheers,
André Miranda

On 01/27/16 08:00, xfce-request at xfce.org wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 08:58:58 +0100
> From: Sylvain <xfce4 at ledragon.net>
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> Subject: intrusive transparent non clickable top layer?
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> Hi,
>
> I would like to have a very visually intrusive count down on my screen
> at scheduled time.
>
> The count down is grayed and transparent, it doesn't change the behavior
> of anything on the screen, it takes all the screen.
>
> A grayed layer, visually intrusive, but non blocking, would be
> advertising that an event will come in 10 or 30 seconds. A kind of
> transparent, non clickable screensaver???
>
> Do you know such application?
> Is they're a way to program such application, where should I start
> looking for?
>
> Regards,
> Sylvain.