2012/6/4 Paweł Rumian <[email protected]> > 2012/6/4 Nicolas G. Querol <[email protected]>: > > 2012/6/4 Paweł Rumian <[email protected]> > >> Hello, > >> > >> check the parameter theme.border_width in the file theme.lua (of your > >> current theme). > >> > >> BR, > >> Paweł > > > > > > Thanks for your suggestion. > > It kind of does what I want, but would it be possible for thoses borders > > to be out of the way, ie. totally transparent? > > You forgot to CC the list ;) >
Ah, sorry about that! > I don't know what do you want to achieve - 'to be out of the way' > seems like setting border width to 0, but If you want to make them > transparent then you will need to use true (hardware) transparency > with a lightweight compositor, like compton: > https://github.com/chjj/compton > > Then you can just set opacity by specyfying the alpha value in square > brackets before the border color, for example: > theme.border_normal = "[40]#3F3F3F" > > At least this is how it works in git/master, I am not 100% sure if it > works in release version. > > HTH, > Paweł > Thank you, I didn't know about setting the opacity in theme.lua. What I meant by "out of the way" is having physical borders that create a gap between tiled windows, but stay invisible (transparent in fact). This avoids tiled windows to be immediately next to each other, and improve readability IMO. So to achieve this, I actually needed, with your advice, to set border opacity to 0, border size to the size of the desired gap (e.g. 10), and finally to use something like xcompmgr, or better yet as you said, compton. The only problem is that you cannot enable shadows, as it will make the "invisible" borders look like Windows Aero. But some could like it :) Thanks again Paweł! -- Nicolas Gaulard Querol <[email protected]>
