per-window transparency control
Brian J. Tarricone
bjt23 at cornell.edu
Wed Oct 12 08:19:30 CEST 2005
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Ori Bernstein wrote:
> 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?
Last I checked, it could change things like window stickiness, window
min/max, position, etc., but it couldn't do transparency. That might
have changed. Didn't check. Oh well.
-b
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