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I'm aiming to hide X11 Windows from screen capture software such as discord/obs, Within windows i am able to do this using SetWindowDisplayAffinity on windows, but on X11 i have struggled to find a similar way to do this.

If this seems unreasonable or unreachable, having a black window render on OBS but not from the perspective of the user would again be a good alternative.

If anyone knows anyway i can do any of these, please send me some links to documentation or examples!

And yes i have only recently got into developing software specifically for linux so i am very open to hearing any of your thoughts on this topic.

Conni Bug
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  • Can't you just capture a single X11 window? – Basile Starynkevitch Jan 06 '22 at 19:19
  • @BasileStarynkevitch Im not sure how that helps me?, could you elaborate a bit, sorry – Conni Bug Jan 06 '22 at 19:37
  • Yh id prefer to be able to primarily capture the entire screen, and if unmapping the window allows the user to see the window in some capacity (and click etc) while being hidden from OBS etc then i think that would be a good way for me to go about it? – Conni Bug Jan 06 '22 at 19:50
  • https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/264542/record-screencast-on-nonactive-workspace may be helpful – Quasímodo Jan 06 '22 at 19:57
  • Kinda helpful yeh, but not really what im hoping for, Not too sure if what im asking is really possible in X11, Seeing as windows and X11 handle windows very differently – Conni Bug Jan 06 '22 at 20:03

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