Focus-transparency

• Author: Suraj Kumar <suraj@sunson.in>
• License: GNU GPL 2 or later
• Downoad: focus-transparency.jl

Synopsis

Make windows not in focus translucent.

Description

This extension enables the window in focus to stay opaque while the ones not in focus become 'translucent' using Xorg's composite extension.

This extension depends on http://forchheimer.se/transset-df/ and, of course, assumes you have reasonably good graphics hardware.

Installation

To use this file, put (require 'focus-transparency) somewhere in your local config files (like ~/.sawfishrc).

This module assumes that you have transset-df in PATH (which, unlike the original transset that comes as part of xorg, allows one to pass the window id). If you don't, you can download transset-df from here:

http://forchheimer.se/transset-df/

See also

• Native-focus-transparency is inspired by this script.
• Window-alpha