color shadows

[adelin-b]

I did a compton modification to add custom colored shadow for the focused window a while ago. I didnt submited a pr back then because it was experimental and that compton seemed unmaintained.
Now i found this fork and I would love to do the switch but I really prefer having borderless and colored shadow to show me which one is selected.

Here is the options I added in https://github.com/adberard/compton

• add the use of hex colors (in compton.conf: shadow-hex "#XXXXXX", in option : --shadow-hex 0xXXXXXX) for shadows (--shadow-hex)
• add an option to customise the focused window shadow color (--shadow-focused-hex)

[yshui]

@adberard I can do this, but it will take me sometime to get around to do this.

OTOH if you could open a PR for this feature I would be really happy to review it. I think this is a useful feature too.

(This feature was in this repo at one point, but was lost to some major refactoring work. And I didn't get time to port it again.)

[gpollo]

Has this been implemented yet? I might give it a look if nobody is working on it.

[adelin-b]

@gpollo oh no I done it already! You can use it

You can use hex colors, however there is no special color depending on the focus or not. That would be cool to be able to do class specific colors

[yshui]

@gpollo Please go ahead! You probably need to implement this for new and legacy backends separately, it's fine if you just do the new backends.