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beatle

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Registered: 2011-08-09

Posts: 16

Invert colors of single window in i3

Hello!

I am using i3 WM (awesome WM! ) and wanted to invert colors. In this forum I found that I can achieve it thusly:

xcalib -invert -alter

And it works great - skype (oh, how I wish i could replace that buggy and annoying thing with something lightweight and FLOSS) and other random windows are now nice and dark but as I already have the standard gray on black terminal and a dark colorscheme for gvim they both are now too bright. Therefore I could really use a way to invert colors only for specific windows and leave the rest of my system, that is already configured dark, alone. Similarly to the Mod4+N feature in Compiz.

Some applications offer the option to invert colors for their windows but not all and it would be nice to have a quick universal means for doing it.

Can you please point me to a possible solution?

Thank you and sorry for my broken English!