mancelin / screen_obstructor

Displays 'always on top' rectangles at specified coordinates to hide some portions of the screen. Can be useful for hiding the UI and the desktop when doing a windowed projection.

screen_obstructor

Displays 'always on top' rectangles at specified coordinates to hide some portions of the screen. Can be useful for hiding the UI and the desktop when doing a windowed projection.

Images speak better than words, so here is a real example :

Projection before using obstructor

Projection after using obstructor, the UI is hidden. With other params, all the VLC UI would have been hidden too

Instalation

• Clone or download this repository

    $ [e-mail]:mancelin/screen_obstructor.git

• Install Tkinter for Python 3

sudo apt-get install python3-tk

• Install the dependencies from the requirements.txt file

pip install -r requirements.txt

Use - obstructor

usage: obstructor.py [-h] x y wv hv

positional arguments:
  x           x of visble
  y           y of visble
  wv          width of visble
  hv          height of visble

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

Issues

For now, you can't quit the obstructor simply by pressing Esc.

For quitting the obstructor, go back to the terminal you lauched it from, press Ctrl + C then over the black zone of the obstructor, it will stop the program.

Licence

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE