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Running i3 on ubuntu, with compton (all recent installations).

I want to use compton to dim inactive windows. It is currently mostly working using inactive-dim = 0.2 just fine. The problem is that when I run a couple of terminals on the same screen, they're either all dim or all bright - it doesn't dim the terminals that aren't active.

I imagine this has something to do with how compton figures out if something is active or not - I can run multiple chrome windows or atom windows or whatever, and those work just fine. Any advice about configuring the terminal launcher? (currently just using i3-sensible-terminal which is launching gnome-terminal).

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  • for the time being, I've just switched to rxvt instead. Commented May 24, 2017 at 17:14

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Try adding these to your compton.conf (also works for picom):

detect-transient = false detect-client-leader = false

From man compton's entries for the equivalent inline options:

 --detect-transient Use WM_TRANSIENT_FOR to group windows, and consider windows in the same group focused at the same time. --detect-client-leader Use WM_CLIENT_LEADER to group windows, and consider windows in the same group focused at the same time. WM_TRANSIENT_FOR has higher priority if --detect-transient is enabled, too.
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