Focus dependent background color

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This will help me disambiguate between the various terminals I usually have 
open. I am never quite sure which window I am going to start typing into.

While transparency gets the job done, i feel it's more CPU intensive. I am 
someone who runs windows classic theme in windows 7, with animations and 
cleartype turned off. So perhaps this is a niche requirement, but I hope it's 
easy enough to implement for you to do it :)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sandesh...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2011 at 5:09

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Oh. This is meant to be an enhancement. My bad. There seems to be no way I can 
change it after the fact.

Original comment by sandesh...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2011 at 5:10

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I'd have hoped that the standard cues of changing window border and cursor are 
sufficient. It's certainly not a mintty-specific issue. Perhaps you should try 
different cursor types or have a play with the window colour settings on the 
"Advanced Appearance" dialog that's still hiding somewhere in the Windows 7 
control panel.

Sure it wouldn't be awfully difficult to implement a separate inactive 
background colour, but that's not a good reason for adding yet another option. 
Also, I don't think the CPU overhead of transparency is significant on anything 
but netbooks and old integrated graphics.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 29 Mar 2011 at 6:58

• Changed state: Rejected
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect