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wavexx / screenkey

A screencast tool to display your keys inspired by Screenflick
https://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/screenkey/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Feature request : distinct opacity for black bar #47

Closed ChameleonScales closed 6 years ago

ChameleonScales commented 7 years ago

The black bar is cluttering my screen and the program I am screencasting on already has a dark interface. Would it be possible to tweak its opacity independently from the characters or simply have a checkbox to disable it ?

wavexx commented 7 years ago

On Mon, Jul 03 2017, Caetano Veyssières wrote:

The black bar is cluttering my screen and the program I am screencasting already has a dark interface. Would it be possible to tweak its opacity independently from the characters

I remember I tried, but AFAIK it was contrived to do with GTK. I completely agree on the function though, and setting an independent opacity is the way to go.

For future reference, this requires a cairo RGBA drawable on the label manager, so that alpha can be set per-pixel. By rendering on it directly directly with pango, we would allow also for inline images (ie: inline mouse actions).

or simply have a checkbox to disable it ?

We cannot do this currently. We just set the transparency per-window.