Hi,

is it possible to disable the shadows for specific windows?

Vdr-sxfe, a frontend for vdr-xineliboutput uses a transparent window as overlay to draw OSD. But because of the kwin-shadow this transparent window is shading over the video.

Greets

Unfortunately it doesn't look like this is possible. KWin doesn't draw the effects for the KMix OSD notification, so vdr-sxfe probably isn't setting the correct flags...

Note: this is with KDE Trunk, you may wish to upgrade to 4.4.1 to see if it is fixed there.

I'm using KDE 4.4.1 here. For me the kmix-osd has shadows also, but this is no problem because this window is the same size as its content.

The problem with vdr-sxfe is that it is using a transparent window the same size as the main-window, so I have a big shadow over the whole video here.

Isn't it possible to add an shadow-option to the window-specific options?

If you du not know vdr-sxfe/vdr-xineliboutput, you can look here: http://vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Xineliboutput-plugin (german)

balta wrote:I'm using KDE 4.4.1 here. For me the kmix-osd has shadows also, but this is no problem because this window is the same size as its content.

No the shadow is faked by the osd itself

balta wrote:Isn't it possible to add an shadow-option to the window-specific options?

No, this requires quite some work, please have a look at Bug #231535. Most likely the issue could be fixed by vdr-sxfe itself: if it uses a translucent overly it could set a window mask which will remove the shadow.

Hi and thanks for the hint. So I will try to fix it in vdr-sxfe and send a patch to its author. Which windowtype should I set for the OSD-window? At the moment xprop is giving me just:

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WM_NAME(STRING) = "HUD"