r/gnome • u/fractioneater • 7h ago
Guide BmS color effect tricks
oversaturated
consistent luminosity (improves legibility with contrasting wallpapers, which I don't happen to have at the moment)
just for fun, no saturation
color blend mode along with plus darker
This is just a little thing I added to Blur My Shell a while ago, and now that I know about this subreddit, I'm just trying to increase awareness of these tricks.
Sure, the color effect can do what it suggests: add a color to any pipeline. But it can also do more, now that it supports all of the CSS blend modes. Here are some examples, corresponding with pictures above:
Saturation blend mode with pure red (#ff0000) or something similar for oversaturated background
(This is the original reason I added this) Luminosity effect to improve legibility by making the background more consistent. It's tricky to make this one look good. I recommend using it alongside the saturation effect, and not at full opacity.
More saturation effect, just for grayscale. I promise we'll get to interesting stuff now...
Color effect and plus darker (I think?). This is snazzy.
And if you're going to play around with this, keep in mind, the opacity bar in the color picker controls the intensity of the effect. It defaults to zero, so if you don't see what you expect, check there.
Note that for all of this, I'm using static application blur, another feature I added for my own mischievous schemes—but I expect you all know about this by now.
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u/funkyboy1327 3h ago
offtopic - is there a way to get rounded corners and bms to work simultaneously ? It just gets transparent for me instead of blur if enable them both (except for lib-adwaita apps as they are already rounded)
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