per-window transparency control

Ori Bernstein rand_chars at rogers.com
Tue Oct 11 04:43:54 CEST 2005


On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 02:52:42 -0700, "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu>
said:

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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

Not sure, but isn't this something that devilspie already does?

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