I use a customized test condition to fade windows, maybe this will help you. It adds the ability to determine both statically and dynamically which windows do you want to fade. Daniel Schoepe and Adam Vogt helped me setting this config at #xmonad. Now with extstate this can be integrated into FadeInactive. import Data.IORef import Control.Monad (liftM, join) import XMonad import XMonad.Hooks.FadeInactive import XMonad.Util.EZConfig import qualified Data.Set as S testCondition :: IORef (S.Set Window) -> Query Bool testCondition floats = liftM not doNotFadeOutWindows <&&> isUnfocused <&&> (join . asks $ \w -> liftX . io $ S.notMember w `fmap` readIORef floats) toggleFadeOut :: Window -> S.Set Window -> S.Set Window toggleFadeOut w s | w `S.member` s = S.delete w s | otherwise = S.insert w s myLogHook toggleFadeSet = fadeOutLogHook $ fadeIf (testCondition toggleFadeSet) 0.7 doNotFadeOutWindows = className =? "xine" <||> className =? "MPlayer" main = do toggleFadeSet <- newIORef S.empty xmonad $ defaultConfig { logHook = myLogHook toggleFadeSet } `additionalKeysP` [ ("M-S-f", withFocused $ io . modifyIORef toggleFadeSet . toggleFadeOut) ] Regards, Henrique G. Abreu On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:32, Justin Bogner wrote:

This seems generally useful, so I'm sending your idea and patch to the xmonad mailing list. It's best to send ideas about xmonad/xmonad-contrib improvements there, so they get a wider audience.

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Hello,

I recently installed the XMonad.Hooks.FadeInactive into my xmonad.hs. I think it is very usable, altough there is one drawback: floating windows.

I (and most people, I think) use floating windows mostly for many-window applications like, for example, the GIMP. In the GIMP, you wouldn't want a window to become transparent, since you want a clear view of your image, even when you're clicking around in the toolbox window.

I therefore propose to add a Query that returns true if the window is unfocused, and in the tiling layer. I attached the code as a diff. I'd

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to know what you think.

Kind regards, Jasper Van der Jeugt

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