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Dwarf

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Registered: 2008-11-05

Posts: 2

Active Window Transparency?

I've been using xfce for about a month now, and I'm liking it a lot, especially xfwm4, I find it to be one of the best wms out there. My only problem is that while I have transparency enabled for pretty much everything (I like transparency ) I don't believe there is an option for making the active window transparent. I don't like compiz (too flashy), And so I was wondering when this feature was going to be implemented (if at all) or if it is and I'm just being oblivious.

Many Thanks!

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 531

Re: Active Window Transparency?

What would be the point? If you make the active window transparent it would be difficult to view it. You can make the window decoration transparent.

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Dwarf

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Registered: 2008-11-05

Posts: 2

Re: Active Window Transparency?

It's fine if you have your colors set. And i like seeing whats going on in pandora and xchat while surfing the web. It's not that big of a deal.

s0ulslack

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From: Idaho

Registered: 2005-12-25

Posts: 291

Re: Active Window Transparency?

Clicking on the titlebar with buttons 8/9 sets trans level per window here, try your scroll wheel on the titlebar.  If that doesn't work poke over the docs/wiki

xfceer

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Registered: 2020-06-29

Posts: 5

Re: Active Window Transparency?

This was the only thing that fixed it for me: https://vorkbaard.nl/fix-window-transpa … ent-144673

Sorry for digging this up. I was just happy to find an actual solution after reading this old thread, but none of the solutions here helped me. What s0ulslack said wasn't really working for me and it turns out to be a strange solution that I never would have thought would work but did.

Last edited by xfceer (2020-07-08 23:38:37)

woistmeinauto

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Registered: 2020-03-29

Posts: 54

Re: Active Window Transparency?

Now he can die in peace?

xfceer

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Registered: 2020-06-29

Posts: 5

Re: Active Window Transparency?

Now he can die in peace?

No point to get snarky. I wasn't doing anything wrong and I still said sorry. This was not a necro because I actually wrote the real solution for anyone who would find this thread through Google someday, just like I did.

Here's the definition of a necro-post: "If the topic has been inactive for a significant length of time, and the new post adds nothing to the topic, then the post can be considered a necropost."

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woistmeinauto

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Registered: 2020-03-29

Posts: 54

Re: Active Window Transparency?

No point to get snarky. I wasn't doing anything wrong and I still said sorry. This was not a necro because I actually wrote the real solution for anyone who would find this thread through Google someday, just like I did.

Here's the definition of a necro-post: "If the topic has been inactive for a significant length of time, and the new post adds nothing to the topic, then the post can be considered a necropost."

Just a joke.