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allow to control translucency / alpa value of windows via _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY
Status:
RESOLVED: INVALID
Priority:
Medium
Severity:
normal
Product:
Xfwm4
Component:
General

Comments

Description Elmar Stellnberger 2016-09-06 14:26:30 CEST 
Controlling the alpha value of windows via some hotkey can be very useful: Read the lines of a window at the bottom through the window at the top or simply dimm the terminal currently compiling the kernel to make it look nicer and see the background image shining through.
  As I have been told on #xfce/freenode this option has been removed from xfwm4-tweak-settings recently. Something that would not mind if I could still regulate translucency of windows via the respective X-properties:

xdotool windowmove 0x00d9f4ae 0 0    .... moves the window to the top left
xprop -id 0x00d9f4ae -f _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 32i -set _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 0x33   ... unfortunately that does nothing

  The compositor for xfwm4 is running and it correcty dimms windows on move or resize.
Comment 1 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2016-09-06 14:31:43 CEST 
Last time I checked _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY was working fine, xfwm4 has been supporting this property for years...
Comment 2 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2016-09-06 14:46:36 CEST 
_NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY is a cardinal, not an integer, so the following works:

xprop -f _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 32c -set _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 0x7FFFFFFF
Comment 3 Elmar Stellnberger 2016-09-06 14:55:17 CEST 
ok; thx; that works fine.

Bug #12820

Reported by:
Elmar Stellnberger
Reported on: 2016-09-06
Last modified on: 2016-09-06

People

Assignee:
Olivier Fourdan
CC List:
0 users

Version

Version:
4.12.0
Target Milestone:
Xfce 4.12

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