RE Animation, Forums...

[Baphomet]

I'm trying to configure one of CCFM's "Close" animations. When I scour these forums - or just about any other - and my cursor hovers on a thread-topic, a little pop-up message appears that shows the first line of the first post in that thread.

I'd like to change THAT particular close effect to "Fade", so as I scroll down the list of topics I'm not bombarded with a more obtrusive animation ("Burn" gets annoying fast in particular situation). My problem is that I can't figure out which option to remove or modify. If it helps, I'd like those little pop-ups, and just those particular ones, to use the "Fade" animation. I've tried removing each option, one at a time to determine which one is culprit, but that hasn't seemed to work.

Help appreciated, and thanks in advance!

[KJ44]

I'm not at my compiz machine right now, but I'm 99% sure i've got the fix you need and I'll post it this evening. I have different close effects on windows and tooltips now. When i first set the basic "explode" effect, it was most disconcerting to see the tooltips shatter.

[KJ44]

From the ccsrc file:

[animation_Screen]
airplane_fly_to_taskbar=false
close_durations=50,200,200,200,150,150
close_effects=4,7,7,8,9,9
close_matches=(name=xmessage) | (name=kdesu);(name=konqueror) & !(title=Konqueror$);(name=kicker);(type=Normal | Dialog | ModalDialog | Utility | Unknown) & !(title=Firefox$);(type=Menu | PopupMenu | DropdownMenu);(type=Tooltip | Notification)
close_options=;;;

Take a backup copy of your ccsrc file first, then ...

Edit your ccsrc file to substitute the above section.
Run the compiz config settings manager (ccsm) to see the changes in a more human-readable user-friendly form under the animation settings..
I -think- this is sufficient to apply the changes, you shouldn't have to restart compiz.

My ccsrc file is in ~/.kde/share/config

Large tooltips for kicker and konqueror have the dream effect. Firefox tooltips don't. Certain dialog boxes (xmesage,kdesu) burn for a split second. Windows shatter into pieces. Everything else fades.

[delfick]

hmm, we should have a list on the wiki of the different window types...............
But I can't find any such thing....
(unfortunately, I don't know either, personally I want to remove the animation of the little tooltip thing that opens to the side of openoffice documents telling you what page you're on....)

[KJ44]

(unfortunately, I don't know either, personally I want to remove the animation of the little tooltip thing that opens to the side of openoffice documents telling you what page you're on....)

The idiom I used is illustrated in this example
(name=konqueror) & !(title=Konqueror$)

The name= selects all the windows of the application including the tooltips
The title= selects only the window with that name (i.e the main one).

so in the above expression, I select everything in Konqueror (class= ...) except !(title=) the main window, which in this case leaves the tooltips.

So you might be able to use the same trick to catch your open office tooltips. :)

[delfick]

here we go, http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/WindowMatching#identify :D

[delfick]

argghh, everything in openoffice is of type=normal

including the menus
and the annoying tooltip thingy.....

all I can do is disable everything related to openoffice with
&!class=OpenOffice.org 2.3

.....
*goes to post bug for openoffice*