Opacify Windows

This caused all sorts of problems for me. As said by PurpleSmurf2, windows would sometimes remain transparent. But also, it also randomly caused everything to become unresponsive. I don't think that it always releases control of the window and/or mouse, and then it causes issues. It got to the point that I couldn't even open the menu on my panels. Multiple times I was forced to reboot in order to get control of my PC back. At first I thought it was my mouse, because the batteries were low. I changed the batteries and still had problems. Then I uninstalled this and everything returned to normal. Very cool extension, but not worth those issues.

Works fine so far in Mint 22.1 Cinnamon. Sometimes, however, the window remains transparent when you move it and only becomes visible again when you move or enlarge it again. Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the error exactly, but it happens a few times during daily use with many windows. In any case, keep up the good work!

The current version works great for me! Thank you for this extension, it does its job really well. I like that the opacity as well as fade-in and fade-out times are all configurable!

I've submitted a fix pull request. https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-extensions/pull/451 You can download the fix right now by running the command I posted in this comment: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-extensions/issues/417#issuecomment-1426449154

Linux Mint 21.1 Does not work correctly. I can see through all the windows to the desktop.

This is available without an extension (Linux Mint 21.1, possibly even earlier): System Settings -> Windows -> (Titlebar tab) -> Action on title bar with mouse scroll: Adjust opacity.

Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon 5.4, with many applications (like firefox, the update manager, nemo, ...) the fade out effect show the desktop background, not others windows behind. https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-extensions/issues/417

I wonder if there's a way to make this extension permanently Opacify a window? I have a specific app that I'd like to use as a widget of sorts, and I wish I could Opacify that Window.

Linux Mint 20.3 with Cinnamon 5.2.7, Extension version 2021-09-25. After dragging window to the edge of the screen and release mouse, the window remains transparent.

It worked in linux mint and i loved to have this package in my linux desktop

Doesn't work with Linux Mint 20.1

Would it be possible to just change the transparency of the title bar? I would reallly like such a feature. Just like Windows 7

28.02.21 small dev bug line 68-73 in onEndGrabOp functions { Tweener.addTween(actor, { opacity: 255, time: settings.beginTime/1000, transition: settings.beginEffect }); } should be: { Tweener.addTween(actor, { opacity: 255, time: settings.endTime/1000, transition: settings.endEffect }); } END time and end effect

Excellent ! It works for LM 20.1 Cinnamon Beta. Very Good Thank you.

Windows sometimes get stuck transparent and have to be re clicked to see them

The issue I have is that the extension doesn't now see the event if you drag a window to the edge of the screen - maximising that way leaves it transparent. I guess this option is missed in the settings .json - though it's hard to understand much of what's going on there. I must use the keyboard 'super' key to snap windows to the sides/corners which avoids opacify... and avoid letting the window snap. Using mouse gestures helps (Easystroke is King) - to vertically maximise, I draw a 'lightning' and to horizontally maximise, a horizontal lightning... so I can drag a window to snap to the side of the screen, then do 'lightning' gesture to vertically maximise it - or go to the keyboard and hit super to put the window in a 'quarter' or 'half' screen which loses the decoration also (using mouse gestures also means not needing to go to/use the titlebar).

Please give us an update. I really like this extension. It does seem to work on 19.3 (although maximizing a window with focus is sometimes transparent) It would also be reassuring not to see a "you might break your system" when you install it.

Valery Kravtsov: You can configure transparency value by the help of following quick-and-dirty workaround: - install Opacity Windows extension to Cinnamon (tested on Mint 19.2) - activate this extension (ignore warning) - in some text editor (vim, mcedit, nano....) open this file: ~/.local/share/cinnamon/extensions/opacify@anish.org/extension.js - in the onBeginGrabOp() function change the line, beginning with "opacity:" - replace content with your raw desired opacity value - may be in range 0..255, in my case the value 220 seems optimal - restart Cinnamon (e.g. login/logout...) Just look at this example (copy from my PC): function onBeginGrabOp(display, screen, window, op) { let actor = window.get_compositor_private(); if (!actor) { return; } if ((op == Meta.GrabOp.MOVING) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.KEYBOARD_MOVING) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.RESIZING_E) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.RESIZING_N) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.RESIZING_NE) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.RESIZING_NW) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.RESIZING_S) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.RESIZING_SE) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.RESIZING_SW) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.RESIZING_W) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.KEYBOARD_RESIZING_E) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.KEYBOARD_RESIZING_N) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.KEYBOARD_RESIZING_NE) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.KEYBOARD_RESIZING_NW) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.KEYBOARD_RESIZING_S) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.KEYBOARD_RESIZING_SE) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.KEYBOARD_RESIZING_SW) || (op == Meta.GrabOp.KEYBOARD_RESIZING_W)|| (op == Meta.GrabOp.KEYBOARD_RESIZING_UNKNOWN)) { Tweener.addTween(actor, { // **** force raw opacity value **** opacity: 220,. time: settings.beginTime/1000, transition: settings.beginEffect }); } }

Configurations button is always disabled on Linux Mint 19.1and Cinnamon 4.0.10.

Need an ability to configure transparency value.

works fine with cinnamon 4.0!

Unfortunately this lovely extension gets disabled by the new, beta (3.4) version of Cinnamon.