transparency for inactive windows

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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tom wrote:
> brain wrote something like that [1], theres a more official page[2]
> 
> [1]http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2006-January/017875.html
> [2]http://spuriousinterrupt.org/projects/transd

Actually, that won't do what he wants.  He wants inactive windows
semi-transparent.  Transd just sets certain windows (based on
application) transparent.

However, I also wrote this:
http://spuriousinterrupt.org/files/xfce4/trans-inactive.c
which you are welcome to use, assuming you can edit and compile it
yourself, and don't complain if/when it breaks.

	-brian

> 
> On 16/02/06, Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>> --
>> http://aconkling.blogspot.com
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