Wish we had something like this... I don't care in the least about 
transparency, but my first love was wmii, the big brother to dwm...  It was the 
only one I saw with "chopped off" corners and I really did prefer that look.  
It would be great if we could specify an arch or a straight chopped off corner 
or even a cutaway square from it...  (of course, this would be subtracted from 
the border width and not the actual window.  Anyway, I do hope someone can 
produce something epic. :)

Regards

On Sat, 30 May 2009 08:22:11 -0700
Andrei Thorp <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'd just like to add some of my obvious, possible use cases for this:
> 
> - Pretty rounded-off notifications (heck, with a composite manager and
> a bit more magic, it would be easy to actually make them fade in/out
> as is popular with notifications these days)
> - Imagine you had a top-docked wibox -- you could round off the
> corners furthest away from the top to make it look like it's tidily
> attached to the top. Very fancy, I guess this is what the Mac top
> panel looks like? (Also this would look even cooler if you made it
> slide in/out for hiding or on startup)
> - Could maybe round off menus too? this might not be as nice though.
> 
> Thanks a lot, Uli (and Plagman). I'm really surprised you've put it so
> much effort to do all this on a whimsical request, but I'm very
> grateful.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -Andrei "Garoth" Thorp
> 
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Uli Schlachter <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Julien Danjou wrote:
> >> At 1243673434 time_t, Uli Schlachter wrote:
> >>> P.S.: Since a 1bit pixmap is used there can be no gray involved and thus 
> >>> no
> >>> anti-aliasing is possible. I'd doubt if some fancy-shape window with rough
> >>> corners would look good...
> >>
> >> Depends, if you want to draw a triangle, it's enough. :-)
> >
> > Ok, here is the deal:
> > XRender can also make parts of a window transparent and cairo supports this.
> > XRender also allows stuff like 23.3% transparent, so there can also be some
> > anti-aliasing, BUT this requires a running composite manager.
> >
> > When everyone is running composite managers I'll come up with some lua API 
> > for
> > making triangle-shaped wiboxes. :P
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Uli
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