On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 22:27:00 +0200, Yair 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.
Yair, Google returns a single hit. The page is in Japanese: http://www010.upp.so-net.ne.jp/atsushi/howto/transparent/index.html It dies link to the following perl script: http://www010.upp.so-net.ne.jp/atsushi/howto/transparent/focustrans.pl I have created /usr/local/share/focustrans.apps then start up as follows: #!/bin/sh xcompmgr & focustrans.pl /usr/local/share/focustrans.apps & xmonad This starts xmonad as before but has no other effect. I have minimal extensions configured. Your note suggests that you got this working. So am I doing something obviously wrong? /john