transparency for inactive windows

[Andrew Conkling]

On 2/16/06, Erika Meier <erika0815 at web.de> wrote:
> I set up xorg7 and it works fine with the open source radeon driver and
> an x300 ati card.
> The panel and the iconbox are transparent and I get the shadows.
> Is there a way to set a certain transparency level to inactive windows?

It doesn't look like that's possible.  The compositor settings are
accessible in the xfwm4rc file (see
http://www.xfce.org/documentation/docs-4.2/xfwm4.html#hidden_options),
but there doesn't appear to be a setting for inactive windows.  I'm
not sure, but maybe you could utilize wmctrl or devilspie to do
something like this?

Anyone else have any ideas?

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