Re: GTK interface modification

[DJ Stauffer <emacsdev@djstauffer.com>]

On 08/14/2018 03:17 AM, Yuri Khan wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 6:15 AM DJ Stauffer <emacsdev@djstauffer.com> wrote:
>
>> There is a modification I would like to make to Emacs' GTK interface.  I
>> have tried a number of solutions to give myself a visual cue as to which
>> window in a frame is selected, including changing the color of the
>> non-selected windows' backgrounds, changes to the powerline colors,
>> etc.
> This made me think how I know which frame and window is selected. In
> my case, the active frame has a colored title bar while an inactive
> frame’s title bar is gray; and the most prominent feature that
> distinguishes the selected window for me is the blinking cursor.
>
> How visible is your cursor?

Yeah,  the powerline changes in my setup to indicate the current window, 
and the cursor is set to block mode, so it is about as visible as I'd 
want it.  Currently I use autodim mode to change the background color of 
the non-selected windows to a grayish version of my normal background 
color.  That works OK, but as a result, it is not as pleasant to read 
from those windows when I need to.  I would prefer to have the 
non-selected windows have the same background color so that syntax 
highlighting looks the same in all windows. Without autodim enabled, it 
is still not always immediately obvious what the current window is.  The 
cursor/powerline changes are not enough to make it obvious 100% of the 
time (at least, not without having to think about it -- and the point is 
I *don't* want to have to think about it).