Adjustable translucency

Posted October 2nd, 2008 by Anonymous

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TiZ

Adjustable transparency for RGBA windows is a must. As you can see in the screenshot, gedit is nigh unusable due to the text and other things poking through so strongly. Those who are able to use blur have it considerably easier, but I, unfortunately, am not among them, and neither is anyone using the open source radeon drivers (I don't know what it's like on the nvidia side). Please create some way to adjust the translucency. Any way at all. Thanks.

Screenshot:

You should NOT use RGBA

On October 2nd, 2008 Cimi says:

You should NOT use RGBA without blur. It is not a matter of increase/decrease transparency: it will be ALWAYS unusable.
Consider that now the transparency level is set to 88-92%, and you'll see the text below even at 96%

I see. It looks like I'll

On October 3rd, 2008 TiZ (not verified) says:

I see. It looks like I'll have to sit out the RBGA party for now, until radeon gets FBO and the other thing that blur needs. But still, I think translucency adjustment, perhaps theme-side, is worth considering at least. Thanks. :)

I think it would still be

On October 4th, 2008 pussi (not verified) says:

I think it would still be nice to be able to adjust the transparency.
Also, is it possible to make murrine engine to set different transparency level for active and inactive windows or is this something that has to be done by the window manager?

It could be nice but it is

On October 5th, 2008 Cimi says:

It could be nice but it is not planned for the near future.
For your second request it's not possible

That wouldn't make much

On October 5th, 2008 TiZ (not verified) says:

That wouldn't make much sense anyways even if it were possible. Text boxes and the like would still be at full opacity. It's better to just use Compiz to do that.