How to make active window visually stand out more in Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome 3
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I would like to tweak my system so that the window under focus stands out more. The contrast in the title bar between active and inactive windows is quite hard to see.
I hit this issue the most when I have a lot of terminals open across many 30" monitors and have no idea which one currently has focus.
An ideal solution would be that the window is obvious just from the brightness of the title bar without needing to reach for the mouse or do fiddly alt-tabbing.
I've found some related questions:
How do I efficiently find my terminal window in GNOME Shell?
Gnome-terminal tabs: no contrast between active and inactive tabs
Visually recognise active window
but these are either for unity/compiz, require a mouse or are just for terminals (and it would be nice to solve this for all apps).
I have tried the "Windows Blur Effects" add on (see How to change color of the active/inactive window?) but it makes gnome very slow under its default settings and I'm unable to open the settings from the "Extensions" tab in gnome-tweak-tools to make it less heavy.
Thanks in advance.
gnome 18.04 gnome-tweak-tool contrast
asked Dec 5 at 2:55
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I would like to tweak my system so that the window under focus stands out more. The contrast in the title bar between active and inactive windows is quite hard to see.
I hit this issue the most when I have a lot of terminals open across many 30" monitors and have no idea which one currently has focus.
An ideal solution would be that the window is obvious just from the brightness of the title bar without needing to reach for the mouse or do fiddly alt-tabbing.
I've found some related questions:
How do I efficiently find my terminal window in GNOME Shell?
Gnome-terminal tabs: no contrast between active and inactive tabs
Visually recognise active window
but these are either for unity/compiz, require a mouse or are just for terminals (and it would be nice to solve this for all apps).
I have tried the "Windows Blur Effects" add on (see How to change color of the active/inactive window?) but it makes gnome very slow under its default settings and I'm unable to open the settings from the "Extensions" tab in gnome-tweak-tools to make it less heavy.
Thanks in advance.
gnome 18.04 gnome-tweak-tool contrast
asked Dec 5 at 2:55
rmin
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MATE does not have such problems (see screenshot with MATE Calc active and other windows passive). May be it is time to start using normal DE, not extensions-based and crippled GNOME sHell?
– N0rbert
Dec 5 at 17:42
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I would like to tweak my system so that the window under focus stands out more. The contrast in the title bar between active and inactive windows is quite hard to see.
I hit this issue the most when I have a lot of terminals open across many 30" monitors and have no idea which one currently has focus.
An ideal solution would be that the window is obvious just from the brightness of the title bar without needing to reach for the mouse or do fiddly alt-tabbing.
I've found some related questions:
How do I efficiently find my terminal window in GNOME Shell?
Gnome-terminal tabs: no contrast between active and inactive tabs
Visually recognise active window
but these are either for unity/compiz, require a mouse or are just for terminals (and it would be nice to solve this for all apps).
I have tried the "Windows Blur Effects" add on (see How to change color of the active/inactive window?) but it makes gnome very slow under its default settings and I'm unable to open the settings from the "Extensions" tab in gnome-tweak-tools to make it less heavy.
Thanks in advance.
gnome 18.04 gnome-tweak-tool contrast
asked Dec 5 at 2:55
rmin
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I would like to tweak my system so that the window under focus stands out more. The contrast in the title bar between active and inactive windows is quite hard to see.
I hit this issue the most when I have a lot of terminals open across many 30" monitors and have no idea which one currently has focus.
An ideal solution would be that the window is obvious just from the brightness of the title bar without needing to reach for the mouse or do fiddly alt-tabbing.
I've found some related questions:
How do I efficiently find my terminal window in GNOME Shell?
Gnome-terminal tabs: no contrast between active and inactive tabs
Visually recognise active window
but these are either for unity/compiz, require a mouse or are just for terminals (and it would be nice to solve this for all apps).
I have tried the "Windows Blur Effects" add on (see How to change color of the active/inactive window?) but it makes gnome very slow under its default settings and I'm unable to open the settings from the "Extensions" tab in gnome-tweak-tools to make it less heavy.
Thanks in advance.
gnome 18.04 gnome-tweak-tool contrast
gnome 18.04 gnome-tweak-tool contrast
asked Dec 5 at 2:55
rmin
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asked Dec 5 at 2:55
rmin
13616
asked Dec 5 at 2:55
rmin
13616
asked Dec 5 at 2:55
rmin
13616
asked Dec 5 at 2:55
rmin
13616
13616
MATE does not have such problems (see screenshot with MATE Calc active and other windows passive). May be it is time to start using normal DE, not extensions-based and crippled GNOME sHell?
– N0rbert
Dec 5 at 17:42
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MATE does not have such problems (see screenshot with MATE Calc active and other windows passive). May be it is time to start using normal DE, not extensions-based and crippled GNOME sHell?
– N0rbert
Dec 5 at 17:42
MATE does not have such problems (see screenshot with MATE Calc active and other windows passive). May be it is time to start using normal DE, not extensions-based and crippled GNOME sHell?
– N0rbert
Dec 5 at 17:42
MATE does not have such problems (see screenshot with MATE Calc active and other windows passive). May be it is time to start using normal DE, not extensions-based and crippled GNOME sHell?
– N0rbert
Dec 5 at 17:42
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MATE does not have such problems (see screenshot with MATE Calc active and other windows passive). May be it is time to start using normal DE, not extensions-based and crippled GNOME sHell?
– N0rbert
Dec 5 at 17:42