by Driver » Mon Nov 14, 2011 3:01 am
Since this is an old thread to which you received no replies, I hope that you figured it out yourself. But since you did not return to your thread and post your success/failure, who knows?
I inadvertently figured this out: If you are using a laptop that has a touchpad, you can easily adjust the transparency of the current window - from opaque to nearly invisible - by holding one of the ALT buttons and moving your finger up and down on the right side of the touchpad (as if you were scrolling a web page up and down in a browser, but with the ALT key depressed). This is not a persistent change so it may not be exactly what you are looking for. But it is handy nonetheless; one can surf the web with a slightly ghosted browser and see when a process that is running in the window below finishes - or view a video that runs below the browser.
Hope this helps someone,
Driver
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