Bug 466483 - Feature Request: Ability to Toggle Transparency Active Window
Summary: Feature Request: Ability to Toggle Transparency Active Window
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2023-02-26 18:03 UTC by Douglas Roberts
Modified: 2023-02-27 11:29 UTC (History)
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Description Douglas Roberts 2023-02-26 18:03:46 UTC 
My wishlist item  for KDE already has a similar feature you can configure:  The ability to control transparency via the mouse wheel.  This is so close to what I want, it seems doable.   I just want to be able to toggle transparency  with a hot key.   This would be a mouse independent feature.

I can toggle transparency of an active window now by using the simple xcompmgr compositor and its companion utility transset-df using the command 

transset-df -t -p


Using a simple bash script, I toggle transparency of an active window on my "Netflix" lappy which uses only a touchpad and no mouse.   

This is a very handy feature to check on something happening underneath a full screen running.  Or even to quickly check the desktop clock will watching a movie full screen.