It would be really nice with an option to have menus slightly transparent like in Mac OSX. Early versions of xcompmgr could do this but it was removed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
I disagree. Menus are just regular override redirect windows, like tooltips, and plenty of other small temporary windows. There is no way to make the menu transparent while keeping other override redirect window opaque. And making all these transparent would not look very good IMO. The currect SVN code adds shadows to those, it looks pretty good. But I'm not in favour fo adding transparency there.
However... An option to add opacity like "popup_opacity" wouldn't hurt either...
(In reply to comment #1) > I disagree. Menus are just regular override redirect windows, like tooltips, and > plenty of other small temporary windows. > > There is no way to make the menu transparent while keeping other override > redirect window opaque. And making all these transparent would not look very > good IMO. How about for windows of type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_MENU...?
Because nobody use that beside Gtk/GNOME and KDE and even then, they don't agree on the meaning of the property... http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2002-May/msg00001.html Things might have improved since then, but even that would make menu inconsistent with other toolkits...
Ok, it's in SVN, revision 17978. Option is "popup_opacity", between 0 and 100 (0 totally transparent, 100 totally opaque) One last question though, the OS mentionned in the report ("Windows XP") is a mistake, isn't it?
(In reply to comment #5) > One last question though, the OS mentionned in the report ("Windows XP") is a > mistake, isn't it? He probably posted the original bug from a windows box. The guided form doesn't let you set OS anymore (though the expert form does) because I thought it was somewhat extraneous, not that useful, and an extra step to make the user-friendly form less user-friendly.
(In reply to comment #6) > He probably posted the original bug from a windows box. The guided form doesn't > let you set OS anymore (though the expert form does) because I thought it was > somewhat extraneous, not that useful, and an extra step to make the > user-friendly form less user-friendly. Exactly, this is a dual boot machine. Thanks for resolving this so quickly btw!