I'm trying to hack in background transparency, only for browser screen estate, and only using the compositor.
I asked about this on IRC, and was directed to try here since its linux-specific.
What I'm aiming to do is quite similar to what RXVT can do; when its background color is set to semi-transparent, but its foreground to opaque, then when window is focused, compositor shows all foreground colors in full opacity and background to semi-transparent, so that desktop can be seen through - which creates a very cool effect with all console apps that use terminal colors.
I aim to accomplish this with a combo of tweaking the background color of browser estate, somehow (using XUL, I presume), and Javascript plugin that overrides background CSS property on body for pages that I want.
This is what I managed, so far:
* [SUCCESS] building a tiny Xlib prototype to prove it can be done relatively easy - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/399 ... ow-in-xlib
* [SUCCESS] looking at about:config to see if there's some sort of background color setting - there is
* [SUCCESS] modifying background color setting to bright pink, and then overriding CSS on DuckDuckGo to a transparent color - as expected, bright pink shows through
* [FAIL] modifying background color to #80808080 - it seems to only accept RGB
* [FAIL] naively think I can find a spot where window is being created and hardcode my own background, recompile and rejoice. Give up when grep for '#include <X11/Xlib.h>' returns 45 matches
* [SUCCESS] go ask on IRC, get redirected here
* [?] look at XUL information and bug reports, and land on this 10y old bug report that states this is fixed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408284
So, I admit, I probably could have done more and narrow problem more accurately before coming here to beg for other people's time, but I'm hoping there's someone here who tinkered with this before and will be able to guide me in the right direction, and that might save ME a whole lot of unnecessary digging, since the codebase is HUGE and I don't even know where to start.
If anyhow possible - please refrain from starting a discussion about WHY would I want to do this. Just assume I'm terribly misguided and possibly stupid, and then either help me and let me shoot myself in the foot, or not
If I get this to work, and if it ends up looking as cool as it seems to be in my head, I'll post pics here.
Ideally, where you see bright pink now, I should be able to see my (animated) desktop.
