Bug 167138

Summary:	Special window settings: opacity not working
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Benno Dielmann <kde>
Component:	compositing	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	glenn.mccarthy, jarlgjessing, magnus.bergmark, mattiassicha, paulatgm, pprkut, sdsadwewed, stevekej, vivia
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Benno Dielmann 2008-07-21 13:48:16 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.98)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

It seems, 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135885
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99807

are still there in 4.1 RC1 even if they are said to be resolved... opacity presets in Special Window Settings just do nothing, while direct opacity via the right click menu on window borders works as expected. 

BTW, I've got an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700, using the free radeon driver.

Comment 1 Michael 2008-07-30 11:16:40 UTC

I can confirm this bug, using kde svn trunk r 837777, using special window opacity settings doesnt work (other settings like force desktop do) - while setting it with the opacity menu works.

My system is gentoo, amd64, gcc 4.3 using a radeon hd3850 with the fglrx driver (8.7).

Comment 2 Martin Flöser 2008-12-17 23:14:32 UTC

*** Bug 173794 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Ákos Mattiassich 2008-12-24 10:35:38 UTC

I can confirm this bug too, 
I want to set these options for a conky window.
"Skip pager" doesn't work also, but the following settings works fine: "Keep below", "No border", "Skip taskbar".

Comment 4 Martin Flöser 2009-02-04 16:09:42 UTC

*** Bug 183189 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 lucas 2009-02-19 15:21:52 UTC

*** Bug 184944 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Jarl Gjessing 2009-03-10 06:52:05 UTC

I too can confirm this bug, and I'm on 4.2 :-( It works when manually setting the opacity, but under special.. no luck :-(

Comment 7 Jarl Gjessing 2009-03-10 07:01:03 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> I too can confirm this bug, and I'm on 4.2 :-( It works when manually setting
> the opacity, but under special.. no luck :-(

Sorry. I ment 4.2.1 :-)

Comment 8 Martin Flöser 2009-03-10 11:28:44 UTC

I just want to point out, that this feature is just not implemented. Only the settings are there.

Comment 9 Heinz Wiesinger 2009-03-12 19:26:18 UTC

If the feature is not implemented, this is a feature wish I guess. If that is the case it looks similar to http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168950

Comment 10 Magnus Bergmark 2009-04-25 21:07:54 UTC

How is the progress on this? I would have thought that implementing this wouldn't be so hard since the manual options work.

Comment 11 SteveK 2009-07-23 19:06:52 UTC

Hmmm, I reported this at the KDE community forums http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=62518 and was advised to file a bug report.  Now I see that this has been known for quite some time now with no resolution.

Comment 12 Thomas Lübking 2009-07-23 23:47:33 UTC

possible patch:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kwin&m=124838327402515&w=2

Comment 13 Thomas Lübking 2009-07-27 15:30:17 UTC

SVN commit 1002997 by luebking:

BUG: 167138
make opacity rules actually functional


 M  +2 -0      activation.cpp  
 M  +2 -0      effects.cpp  
 M  +5 -0      rules.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1002997

Comment 14 Thomas Lübking 2009-08-26 13:13:10 UTC

SVN commit 1015801 by luebking:

backport 1002997, make opacity rules actually do something
CCBUG: 167138


 M  +2 -0      activation.cpp  
 M  +2 -0      effects.cpp  
 M  +5 -0      rules.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1015801