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fennerm / flashfocus

Simple focus animations for tiling window managers.
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Flashfocus seems to override other window opacities #35

Closed BlueDrink9 closed 4 years ago

BlueDrink9 commented 4 years ago

In my compton.conf:

inactive-window-opacity = 1;
inactive-opacity = 0.95;
{a custom window rule}

Without flashfocus running, compton displays these correctly. When I start FF, these become fully opaque.

I understand that the current max opacity is configurable. Could this instead be set to whatever compton would use for it?

Lmk if you need me to provide any more info.

fennerm commented 4 years ago

Yes flashfocus will override opacity settings set in your compton config. You can set the default opacity of all windows to 0.95 but currently there is no way to set different default opacity for focused vs non-focused windows.

BlueDrink9 commented 4 years ago

That's a shame. Is it something you've looked into adding?

fennerm commented 4 years ago

Just to make sure I’m understanding, could you describe for me the effect you’re trying to achieve?

BlueDrink9 commented 4 years ago

Say I have inactive windows set at 0.5 opacity in compton, and active windows at 0.9. When I switch to a window, I would like it to flash from 0.1 to [active window value from compton], and for the old window to become 0.5.

Currently, I can set the active window to flash from 0.1 to 0.9 in flashfocus, but not inactive windows. They are set at 1 when I use ff.

fennerm commented 4 years ago

This isn't something I'm super interested in implementing at the moment. I don't really think flashfocus is necessary if you're dimming inactive windows (and vice versa). It would also add a decent amount of code complexity.

I'll keep it in mind though and it may be something I'll reconsider later.