On Saturday 03 November 2007 15:27:00 Yair Mahalalel wrote:
This is not what you were asking for, but you can achieve a similar effect by controlling the transparency of the windows. There's a perl script floating around called focustrans.pl, which uses the transset-df utility to keep all windows but the one in focus translucent. If you set your root image to something bland, this has the effect of toning down the whole screen except for focused window, which appears to stand out. I find this to be a very intuitive way to keep track of window focus.
The script itself is an ugly hack, however, and might take some fiddling to get working, but it might be worth the effort as the effect is both pretty and usable.
We could actually provide the functionality of transset-df and focustrans.pl within xmonad with a layout modifier. All it requires is setting a window property on unfocused windows. Who wants to write it? ;)
(And since this is my first posting on this list, kudos to the xmonad team. It's an outstanding piece of work)
Thanks!
Cheers, Yair.