Shoutbox

Is there any program that can make a window stand out of others, and darken the background.

I can't explain it, so here's a picture.



Is there any program which can achieve this effect with a window ? (or windows?)

Don't know in Windows, but in Linux you can use the ADDHelper plugin for CompizFusion to enable that effect. (And couldn't find anything that does the same on Windows, sorry.)

Heh, atleast I was able to explain properly.

ADDHelper is exactly what I want...but for windows. I'll keep looking, any help is appreciated

Could you use samurize? I used samurize to create a "widget" that placed a button on my desktop that when double clicked darkened the screen, didn't let me click any icons or anything behind the screen and then had lots of little things on top... Sort of a dashboard for windows deal. I'm not sure if you could display an active window ontop of this though, but im sure so it'd be worth looking into!

In Windows 7 you could shake the window. Doesn't darken the rest, but hides everything else, same kind of effect.

I remember they used to do it with the divx player on Stage6.

EDIT: Yeah, divx player has a 'desktop dimmer' feature =p

Jedi Concentrate


AnAppADay to the rescue. Check out some of the other programs on there, quite useful!

(Alternatives for Linux: ADDHelper, Mac: Exposé)

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/
ghoster (somewhere on that site) also does the trick...
advantage there is you can easily change the program...

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Originally posted by Menthix
In Windows 7 you could shake the window. Doesn't darken the rest, but hides everything else, same kind of effect.

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Yeah, not exactly what I wanted. I can't stand that, it doesn't work when I want to bring stuff back up (and on the odd times that it does, it jerks the current window weirdly)

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Originally posted by Dr4g0n
Jedi Concentrate

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Very nice, this one uses a hotkey which will help awesomely when I need it

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Originally posted by foaly
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/

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This also does what you said, however multimon=1 doesn't seem to work like the options says. However that is not a big deal. This one is automatic for whichever active window.

Both will help in different situations. I believe this is now solved

Thanks Dr4g0n and foaly. My love is now for you .



SOLVED ;D

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