You’ll need to install AutoHotkey to use this script, but once you do, you simply double-click the .ahk file to launch the utility. It plants a small icon in your system tray to allow for exiting, as well as controlling the level of transparency and the time delay for considering a window “inactive”.
Fade to Black is a free download from, well, our Dropbox stash (temporarily). It was written by Lifehacker reader David E. — if you have any fixes to the script, or, better still, a self-contained executable to offer, let us know in the comments.
James
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 8:59 AM#Persistent
SetTimer, CheckIfActive, 1000
return
That 1000 is 1000ms, or 1 second, change it to a smaller number if you want inactive windows to redraw quicker when you click on them.
Brock Atkinson
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 5:54 PMThis sounded great, so I gave it a try. The only problem is that it makes my secondary monitor look stupid as some of the stuff goes transparent there (my media player and other windows). Uninstalled.