xfwm feature request: transparent inactive windows

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Thu Apr 6 23:09:22 CEST 2006


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Aaron wrote:
> it works on any window with dialog type. tooltips, menus, and dialogs.
> for some reason this includes xscreensaver... (wtf?)

It works on override redirect windows, one of which is xscreensaver's
window.

	-brian

> 
> On 4/6/06, Andrea Santilli <yawara at quipo.it> wrote:
> 
>>hello,
>>I've tried that popup window opacity option but it applies not only to
>>menus... I get other applications transparent, such as the screensaver.
>>Is there any way to make xfwm apply that option only to menus?
>>
>>
>>Il giorno gio, 06/04/2006 alle 03.37 +0200, Andrea Santilli ha scritto:
>>
>>>Oh yes, the popup window opacity! I didn't notice that option...
>>>Thanks again!
>>>
>>>Il giorno mer, 05/04/2006 alle 15.46 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone ha
>>>scritto:
>>>
> Andrea Santilli wrote:
> 
>>hi,
>>thanks a lot for that daemon! I found it interesting and I'm playing
>>a bit by modifying it. I wanted to make gtk2 menus transparent as well
>>by adding some control on _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_MENU but it didnt work.
>>Any idea?
> 
> The SVN version of xfwm4 can do transparency on menus.  See the hidden
> options (or the WM Tweaks settings panel).
> 
>     -brian
> 
> 
>>Il giorno lun, 03/04/2006 alle 01.48 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone ha
>>scritto:
> 
>>Andrea Santilli wrote:
> 
> 
>>>hi,
>>>i was trying the svn version of xfwm and i was really amazed by its new
>>>features. Among these i like the composite setting dialog a lot.
>>>so i want to propose you to add a new option: the opacity for inactive
>>>windows.
>>>i saw such an option on kwin and i think it would be great to have it on
>>>xfwm too.
>>>i hope this proposal could be useful.
> 
>>http://spuriousinterrupt.org/files/xfce4/trans-inactive.c
> 
>>  -brian
> 
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