per-window transparency control

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Mon Oct 10 11:52:42 CEST 2005


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Hey all,

Now that I've been using xfwm4's compositor, I realise that I really
like having 20% transparent terminals.  Of course, it's a PITA to run
transset every time I open a new term, so I decided to write a little
daemon to do it for me.  Feel free to try it out from my svn repo:

svn co http://kelnos.spuriousinterrupt.org/svn/brian/transd/trunk transd

It's pretty alpha; I only spent about an hour and a half or so on it,
but it seems to work for me.  Instructions are in the README; you can
set it up to watch for creation of any particular window type and set
the opacity level from (2.328x10^-8)% (essentially zero) to 100%.

I'm providing this as-is in case anyone finds it useful; I really have
no intention of offering any support, though I do plan to add a GUI
editor for the config file at some point, since the numeric entry is a
bit cumbersome at present (-1 = 100% opaque).  If it works for you,
great.  If not, I only accept patches, not complaints.

	-b

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