A script to make inactive windows transparent

Sway has ability to apply transparency to arbitrary windows. This script
wires up this functional to one of popular use-cases from
i3+<compositor_name>.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
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Konstantin Kharlamov 2018-10-20 21:43:54 +03:00
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#!/usr/bin/python
# This script requires i3ipc-python package (install it from a system package manager
# or pip).
# It makes inactive windows transparent. Use `transparency_val` variable to control
# transparency strength in range of 0…1.
import i3ipc
transparency_val = '0.8';
ipc = i3ipc.Connection()
prev_focused = None
for window in ipc.get_tree():
if window.focused:
prev_focused = window
else:
window.command('opacity ' + transparency_val)
def on_window_focus(ipc, focused):
global prev_focused
if focused.container.id != prev_focused.id: # https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/2859
focused.container.command('opacity 1')
prev_focused.command('opacity ' + transparency_val)
prev_focused = focused.container
ipc.on("window::focus", on_window_focus)
ipc.main()