Hi,
I just installed your distro and I am loving it. I like dark themes so I am using Arc-dark, but this theme does not highlight the focused window title bar much, so I turned on Compton and entered a value for the "Dim inactive window" setting.
This works, but if you have two xfce4 terminals open in a workspace, Compton treats them as one app and does not dim the unfocused terminal when you are typing in the other one. I think the problem is not in Compton, but is caused by the terminal program using the same PID for all its windows.
I am wondering if there is a way to force the "xfce4-terminal" program to use a new PID each time it is called?
Thanks,
Phil
XFCE4 Terminal and Compton Dimming
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Re: XFCE4 Terminal and Compton Dimming
you could try forking it.
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xfce4-terminal &
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FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.
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FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.
Re: XFCE4 Terminal and Compton Dimming
And welcome to the Forum, BTW!
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Re: XFCE4 Terminal and Compton Dimming
I tried that. It did not work. I think the program detects the first process, sends a message for the original to open a new window and terminates. This is good design and saves a lot of ram, so I'm not really complaining... LoL
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Re: XFCE4 Terminal and Compton Dimming
My last reply got me thinking. It's a terminal server so I tried the "--disable-server" parameter and that worked.
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Re: XFCE4 Terminal and Compton Dimming
nice thanksphilsterBKK wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2019 8:23 am My last reply got me thinking. It's a terminal server so I tried the "--disable-server" parameter and that worked.
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FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.
lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 - MX-23
FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.