Main window opacity about copyq HOT 11 CLOSED

I guess it would add OpenGL dependency to the application -- that's not good for this type of app. This should probably be done in a (compositing) window manager or something like https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xcompmgr.

If you know any applications that can do this let me know and I'll check them out.

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I've not used Qt opacity control (yet). But you can read this:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qwidget.html#windowOpacity-prop
"This feature is available on Embedded Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and X11 platforms that support the Composite extension."
I guess we don't need adding OpenGL dependency to CopyQ.

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Ah, great. I'll test that -- you'll still need compositing manager running under X11 -- but in that case I can add a simple note next to opacity option.

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Implemented in c331875.

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It works great! Good job! But... I miss "focused transparency". When I was thinking about "main window opacity" I was thinking about "focused transparency".
It make sense. You could search clipboard content while you could show window behind.
Set "focused transparency" to 5% would be nice.
What do you think about it?

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Done.

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I don't know why "unfocused transparency" doesn't work for me now, however "focused transparency" works ok. Anyway it's enough for me.

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On my side it stops working randomly on Linux, KDE 4.10.2, Qt 4.8.4 -- I've double-checked and the setWindowOpacity() is called (with correct values) so it must be issue somewhere else.

I hope it works fine with Qt 5 -- actually there is nasty bug in Qt 5.0.2 which causes the app to crash when using system-wide shortcuts (I've already fixed that in Qt so it shouldn't be a problem in the next release).

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I have just the same system configuration (Archlinux, KDE 4.10.2, Qt 4.8.4).
By the way, when CopyQ next release (1.8.1?) will be realeased?

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I'll have time to test all new features tomorrow and the day after. So I'll release it probably in next two days. But in the meanwhile testing, testing, testing :).

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1.8.1 released!

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