Translucent/transparent menus

sebaro commented 3 years ago

Describe the new feature

What is it which fvwm3 doesn't do at the moment, but should?

Gentoo has this patch that makes the menus transparent. It works fine and I didn't have any issue with it on FVWM2. fvwm-2.5.27-translucent-menus.diff.txt

How might fvwm3 need to change?

Non-technical thoughts about the impact this will have in fvwm3, what might need to change, and whether this impacts backwards-compatability.

New Colorset style options.

Can this be achieved through scripting?

Is a proof-of-concept available externally through scripting fvwm3?

No.

Does this functionality exist elsewhere in other WMs, if so, which?

Yes.

somiaj commented 1 year ago

@sebaro checkout #760, I have updated the patch for fvwm3. It is in the js/translucent-menu branch.

sebaro commented 1 year ago

It's working fine, thanks.

ExecutorElassus commented 1 year ago

This patch, which on my gentoo applies to fvwm3-1.0.4, does not work for me for translucent menus (nor translucent colorsets applied to the buttons with 'Back' in the ButtonsBar.

Unless there's something about the new config-file formats that I'm missing?

somiaj commented 1 year ago

You will need to install fvwm from the master branch to get this feature, and it will be part of 1.0.6 when it is released.

fvwmorg / fvwm3