enabling/disabling pretty mode on the fly

[luvily-autumn]

okay so on swayfx i have this in the top of my config

blur enable
shadows enable
shadow_blur_radius 15
default_dim_inactive 0.5
titlebar_separator disable
exec /usr/share/sway-contrib/inactive-windows-transparency.py -o 0.75

i want to be able to turn off the pretty mode effects, like blurring, transparency, shadows, and dimming with a keyboard shortcut! transparency i think should just be swaymsg opacity 1

then, with another keyboard shortcut, i want to enable the pretty mode effects.

i'm just working on setting the command right, not the keyboard shortcuts (i know how to do that)

i've gotten this so far

swaymsg 'blur enable off; shadows enable off; shadow_blur_radius 0; default_dim_inactive 0.0; for_window [class=".*"] opacity 1.0 reload'

but uhmm, it doesn't work...
does anyone know how to fix this?

• best regards, jack!

[Alexxami]

swaymsg 'blur enable off; shadows enable off; shadow_blur_radius 0; default_dim_inactive 0.0; for_window [class=".*"] opacity 1.0; corner_radius 0'

There's just one problem: already open windows retain the corner radius, but I think that's almost what you want.

[realchoodle]

I would like something like this as well. I think GNU Stow could be a good option though; you could make one set of files for pretty mode and one set for not pretty mode. All you would have to do is stow * in one directory and stow -D * in the other and then reload. Could be a script too.