How are you supposed to know where your keystrokes are going
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I have a number of open programs and windows on my desktop, including Vivaldi, Firefox, Windows Explorer, Windows Task Manager, and Foxit. As I go from program to program with alt-esc, I can immediately see from the window borders, mine are bright red, and the color of the title bars, which window has the focus and where my keystrokes will go.
Not so with Vivaldi. Even with the title bar on, nothing changes in the Vivaldi window to tell me either that it has or doesn't have the focus.
Foxit doesn't have working borders, but the document in the title bar grays out when the program loses focus so you can tell when it has the focus.
Am I missing something? Is there some way with some setting to get a visible sign in the window that Vivaldi has the focus?
What is the point of having a title bar if it doesn't work like a title bar?
In 1993, in Windows 3, under DOS, Microsoft solved, with active borders, the problem of knowing where your keystrokes would go in a windows environment. Thirty years later, why must we deal with the same problem?
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@northmadison You can set this by theme. Visit `vivaldi://settings/themes, select a theme and in the Editor inside the Colors tab is an option to »fade foreground colors« for background windows.
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@luetage @luetage Thanks for the information. I tried it, and it works. It makes Vivaldi distinguishable.
The method, however, is not exactly perfect. The color Vivaldi gets for the title bar is dark and fading it makes it lighter. The window is slightly more noticeable when inactive than active. Also, in displaying the title bar, Vivaldi puts a color only on a small part of the window border, not the entire border. I see no purpose served by coloring only part of the window border.
I think the 1993 Microsoft active border color solution remains the best solution for the problem.
When people try to reinvent the wheel, they consistently do a bad job.
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