[sawfish-list] A few customizations for opacity

[Amit Gurdasani <gurdasani gmx net>]

Hi,

Philip Langdale posted a patch last month to allow for the window frame ID 
to be retrieved for a window. Based on his window-frame-id function, I've 
written a few eyecandy controls pertaining to opacity. I know he was 
interested in this sort of thing; this message is just an FYI for those 
interested. :)

The customizations have been posted to the Sawfish wiki at 
http://sawfish.uberstyle.net/.

translucent-move.jl is essentially Mr Langdale's code for translucent window 
moves, changed somewhat to halve the opacity if such a setting exists during 
the move, and then to restore it once the move is complete.
http://sawfish.uberstyle.net/uploads/SawfishWiki/translucent-move.jl

translucency-matcher.jl adds a window matcher based on the EWMH window type 
property (to e.g. be able to identify dock windows or dialog windows), as 
well as a setter for opacity, so that, for instance, all GTK+ and Qt menus 
can be made translucent.
http://sawfish.uberstyle.net/uploads/SawfishWiki/translucency-matcher.jl

translucency-menu.jl adds a submenu to the window ops menu allowing the user 
to select an opacity level for a window. If translucency-matcher.jl and 
window-history.jl are loaded, it also saves and restores opacity as part of 
the window history attributes, so matching windows will appear with the same 
opacity level.
http://sawfish.uberstyle.net/uploads/SawfishWiki/translucency-menu.jl

quake-console.jl is somewhat unrelated, but it's an effect I find useful. 
Its use is to allow for a window, typically a terminal emulator such as 
xterm or konsole, to be "swallowed up" by the window manager (positioned at 
the top-left corner of the screen, undecorated, shaded and normally hidden). 
The window is uniquely identified by the name or title that is set when 
starting it. A keybinding is provided to automatically alternately unshade, 
unhide and focus the window, as well as raise it to the top, and to shade 
and hide the window and focus the window previously focused. In this manner 
it behaves not unlike the console in id's Quake series of games.
http://sawfish.uberstyle.net/uploads/SawfishWiki/quake-console.jl

Please excuse the quality of the code; I'm still relatively new at this and 
still learning.

I hope someone finds them useful.

Amit