It's not awesome that would be dimming them, but the compositor. I've been dimming mine via compton for a while (https://github.com/chjj/compton), before that I had compton turn them semi-transparent but that got distracting. Here is the string I use in my .compton.conf for this:
inactive-dim = 0.5 On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Paul Jolly <p...@myitcv.org.uk> wrote: > Trawling back through the archives I stumbled across this thread: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.awesome/4054/ > > Is this still relevant in recent version of awesome? > > Is there an easy way to get dimming up and running? > > Best, > > > Paul > -- > p...@myitcv.org.uk >