On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 09:06:14AM +0100, Alex wrote: > On 03/04/2017 04:54 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > I really like transparent Terminal windows and would like to use them > > in AppVMs. They work on the dom0 Terminal, no sweat. But when I try > > to set the Background to transparent in the Terminal Preferences in > > any Fedora-24 AppVM I get: "Sorry, your Window Manager does not > > support compositing: Opacity setting is not available." > AFAIR, having transparent/semitransparent windows from AppVMs is a > potential security problem: rogue software may overlay hard-to-spot > windows on top of legitimate software to get confirmations/other actions > performed by an unsuspecting user. > > So if something like this gets ever implemented in the GUI daemon (maybe > when wayland is supported?), I hope that I can disable the > functionality; it would be even better if that was disabled by default, > and had to be turned on by the user. > > -- > Alex
Also, all the window effects you see are implemented in the GUI domain, currently dom0, and there are a number of effects that aren't supported there. (e.g flashing alerts are not propagated to dom0 as another suer has pointed out.) I think that window opacity is one of these, and as Alex suggests, that's a good thing. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20170304151831.GB8838%40thirdeyesecurity.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
