chjj/compton — Issue #2: FEATURE REQUEST: Dim Inactive Windows
Author: ecopunk
Created: 2012-01-31 17:28:49+00:00
State: open

Consider this a humble request that you might find useful/interesting, and would have the upside of considerably increasing the usability of tiling window managers when used with it...

Would it be possible to implement a feature to dim inactive windows, similar to what Kwin allows? This would probably work almost identically to the current "-i" flag, except that rather than making inactive windows transparent it would darken (and possibly desaturate) them by the given amount. Bonus points for an additional flag that prevents panels from never being dimmed.

I've been looking for a feature like this to use in conjunction with Xmonad for a long time, and compton looks to be the closes to something that can actually implement it.

Thanks for the consideration!