If you use Compiz and GNOME, you might have noticed that you can still see your screen after you lock it. This is because, Compiz allows gnome-screensaver's window(the window that normally turns your screen black) to be slightly transparent. To fix this, go to the CompizConfig Settings Manager (most likely in System > Preferences), click on General Options and go to the Opacity Settings tab. You will see something like ((type=Menu | PopupMenu | DropdownMenu | Tooltip | Notification | Combo | Dnd | name=sun-awt-X11-XWindowPeer) | (type=Normal & override_redirect=1)) & !(name=sun-awt-X11-XFramePeer | name=sun-awt-X11-XDialogPeer)
This is a conditional statement which tells Compiz which windows to make transparent. You can either add name=gnome-screensaver to the opacity windows listbox and change the opacity to full or you can add it to the original item in the listbox to change it into:((type=Menu | PopupMenu | DropdownMenu | Tooltip | Notification | Combo | Dnd | name=sun-awt-X11-XWindowPeer) | (type=Normal & override_redirect=1)) & !(name=sun-awt-X11-XFramePeer | name=sun-awt-X11-XDialogPeer | name=gnome-screensaver)
[via www.tedcarnahan.com]
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Make gnome-screensaver opaque with Compiz
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Along similar lines... I'm hunting but so far to no avail for a way to opaque out a specific in-browser class, specifically 'application/x-shockwave-flash'.
Ideally, I'd like to keep my semi-transparent browsing going on (it's super handy for cross-referencing data, actually), but would like embedded flash videos to be opaque.
If you can figure this out, you will win the internet, lol.
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