From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: DJ Stauffer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GTK interface modification Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 01:35:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <0520ad1f-1b7a-dd80-5030-00c07754d9c4@djstauffer.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534314797 8594 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2018 06:33:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 06:33:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 15 08:33:13 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fppMm-00028A-31 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 08:33:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47554 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fppOs-0006WE-Km for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 02:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48773) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fppOh-0006V1-BV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 02:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fppOd-0005cQ-80 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 02:35:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:feae:2745] (port=35496 helo=mail.djstauffer.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fppOc-0005ZV-Iz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 02:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.7.0.61] (unknown [207.5.127.221]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: buysell@djstauffer.com) by mail.djstauffer.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C43804FB23 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 01:35:04 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-djstauffer-com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-djstauffer-com-MailScanner-ID: C43804FB23.A51C5 X-djstauffer-com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-djstauffer-com-MailScanner-From: emacsdev@djstauffer.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:feae:2745 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228546 Archived-At: On 08/14/2018 03:17 AM, Yuri Khan wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 6:15 AM DJ Stauffer w= rote: > >> 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 whi= ch >> 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=E2=80=99s 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,=C2=A0 the powerline changes in my setup to indicate the current win= dow,=20 and the cursor is set to block mode, so it is about as visible as I'd=20 want it.=C2=A0 Currently I use autodim mode to change the background colo= r of=20 the non-selected windows to a grayish version of my normal background=20 color.=C2=A0 That works OK, but as a result, it is not as pleasant to rea= d=20 from those windows when I need to.=C2=A0 I would prefer to have the=20 non-selected windows have the same background color so that syntax=20 highlighting looks the same in all windows. Without autodim enabled, it=20 is still not always immediately obvious what the current window is.=C2=A0= The=20 cursor/powerline changes are not enough to make it obvious 100% of the=20 time (at least, not without having to think about it -- and the point is=20 I *don't* want to have to think about it).