Hello, I've been converting myself over to console applications when possible now. I think it has a sleek look, and it ought to reduce my overhead.
So on my mutlimedia workspace, I'd considered running a nearly full screen terminal of alsamixer with a command line music player in a smaller terminal that is normally on top. However, for my pseduo-transparent terminals, this was a major eyesore to have a solid black background for alsamixer. Before I investigated other mixer option, google fu could produce a patch for alsa-utils to make alsamixer run transparent. So, with this patch in hand, then I could easily make a local overlay of alsa-utils, patch the ebuild, and get my desired result. The patch isn't for the latest ~x86 alsa-utils, so I may need to tweak it for more recent versions. My question is if anyone is going to accept this as a reasonable "feature" addition to alsa-mixer on the main portage tree. I assume perhaps not, but I can't really see almost any advantage of the forced black background. If you want a black background, I say run the terminal that way. I didn't make the patch, so I have no intention to take the credit myself, but I didn't want to look like a dunce on bugzilla, but I've never submitted a feature request that didn't make me look like a dunce, hence polling opinion here. You can see the patch below. In any case, of course ebuild patching >> plugins ~daid This idea came from https://www.prof-maad.org/blog/2009/11/11/transparent-alsamixer/ (and the website had some apparent security issues the other week when I found this, just fyi). d...@flux /usr/local/portage/media-sound/alsa-utils/files $ cat alsa-utils-1.0.20-transparency.patch --- alsa-utils-1.0.20/alsamixer/alsamixer.c 2009-05-06 15:07:24.000000000 +0800 +++ alsa-utils-1.0.20-profmaad1/alsamixer/alsamixer.c 2009-11-11 21:33:14.242278621 +0800 @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ #define MIXER_CBAR_STD_HGT (10) #define MIXER_MIN_Y (MIXER_TEXT_Y + 6) /* abs minimum: 16 */ -#define MIXER_BLACK (COLOR_BLACK) +#define MIXER_BLACK (-1) #define MIXER_DARK_RED (COLOR_RED) #define MIXER_RED (COLOR_RED | A_BOLD) #define MIXER_GREEN (COLOR_GREEN | A_BOLD) @@ -320,7 +320,9 @@ dc_fg[n] = f; dc_attrib[n] = a; dc_char[n] = c; - if (n > 0) + if(b==-1) + init_pair (n, dc_fg[n] & 0xf, b); + else if (n > 0) init_pair (n, dc_fg[n] & 0xf, b & 0x0f); } @@ -339,6 +341,7 @@ mixer_init_draw_contexts (void) { start_color (); + use_default_colors(); mixer_init_dc ('.', DC_BACK, MIXER_WHITE, MIXER_BLACK, A_NORMAL); mixer_init_dc ('.', DC_TEXT, MIXER_YELLOW, MIXER_BLACK, A_BOLD);
