Automatic Opacity Effect

[peneus]

It was a lot more efficient when I could use this compiz affect on Ubuntu 10.04 (in gnome 2).

Here is the description: When you move the mouse away from window X to
window Y, window X becomes transparent so that window Y can be seen if it
is behind window X.

This is the most important feature I miss from gnome 2.

[infirit]

It never was a feature of gnome2 but compiz. Compiz was an alternate window manager done by novell.

You can achieve a similar effect with compton, https://launchpad.net/~richardgv/+archive/compton

[peneus]

You are right it was a compiz feature. I could get the same feature to work in the
current version of compiz. Compton seems like a promising program but I couldn't
make it work and it broke some other features.

I think having "hot corners" and "automatic opacity" would make marco a lot more
better especially on laptops with small screens. I would like to suggest these two
features for marco.

[monsta]

That's why Compiz exists, let's leave complex visual features to it