Feature request : distinct opacity for black bar

[Chameleon Scales]

The black bar is cluttering my screen and the program I am screencasting on already has a dark interface.
Would it be possible to tweak its opacity independently from the characters or simply have a checkbox to disable it ?

[Yuri D'Elia]

On Mon, Jul 03 2017, Caetano Veyssières wrote: The black bar is cluttering my screen and the program I am screencasting already has a dark interface. Would it be possible to tweak its opacity independently from the characters

I remember I tried, but AFAIK it was contrived to do with GTK. I completely agree on the function though, and setting an independent opacity is the way to go. For future reference, this requires a cairo RGBA drawable on the label manager, so that alpha can be set per-pixel. By rendering on it directly directly with pango, we would allow also for inline images (ie: inline mouse actions).

or simply have a checkbox to disable it ?

We cannot do this currently. We just set the transparency per-window.