[xmonad] Transparent Border with Chrome Beta/Unstable

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Eyal Erez <oneself at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've recently update my machine to find that chrome's window border
> (orange on all my other windows) is now transparent.  I noticed that Google
> have added their new Aura graphics stack instead of GTK+
> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/Zpu9801pPRc>,
> and I'm wondering if this is not playing nicely with xmonad.  Downgrading
> to Chrome stable solves the problem.  But I'm guessing that once the stable
> version gets updated, I'll get the same issue again.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this?  Is there anything I can do to confirm that
> this is the problem or fix it somehow?
>

One drawback of using server side borders is that the transparency behavior
is defined by the application, since the border is technically part of the
application window and not a frame window. It may be possible to specify
the border color as RGBA (e.g. focusedBorderColor = "#ffa500ff") instead of
RGB... but this may then break (i.e. cause BadMatch X11 errors) windows
which are *not* RGBA.

(The #xxx format for colors may not work for RGBA; it may need to be
"rgba:1/0.65/0/1".)

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