Make an application transparent, and float on top of all your windows. Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 One thing that I always liked doing in Ubuntu was making some of my windows transparent, so I could see what was going on behind them. For instance, if I wanted to watch a movie, but still be able to see what’s going on behind the screen I’d turn down the opacity a little.

In the case of the paid version you can easily install it via Apple's Mac App Store. Movist comes with a simple and minimalist interface from which you can easily access the Preferences window and the transparent playlist slide sheet. Deskovery 3.1 brings back transparent, floating and compiz like wobbly windows to your mac and work with SIP activated. Wobbly windows are still using the core graphics server to render the effect. It calls the function already used to render the 'genie effect' when you minimized a window to the.

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Being able to do that in OS X is something that didn’t exist until now. That would let you keep a window on top of your workflow, no matter what application I was using at the time, and it turns out that in a round about way I found an application that kills two birds with one stone. Turns out there’s a plugin that lets you do just what I was looking for.

Keeping a particular window in the foreground lets you, as the title suggests, keep certain windows floating above all other windows at all times. For instance, if you’re working in Google Docs, and you’re getting annoyed every time you jump into another program because the Google Docs windows gets moved to the background, then Afloat is what you need. After installation, you’re required to close out the applications you’re using, and upon their relaunch, you’ll notice a couple new menu options in the “Windows” menu of your application. Lets you make certain windows transparent Like I mentioned off the top,. You can use a keyboard shortcut to increase or decrease the opacity for every window you want to mess around with. The opacity/opaque settings might not be for everyone, but I know a bunch of people who are already using afloat to de-emphasize iTunes, and some other applications around the desktop.

The application is free, so you’re free to try it out at your leisure.

Chealion's answer works, and I'll be marking it as the accepted answer, but I figured out another way to do this also, cause I'm too impatient to wait for answers: • Create a new set of settings with the desired level of opacity in Terminal -> Preferences • Make the desired terminal window active and Show Inspector for it: Shell -> Show Inspector or Command+I • Choose the Settings tab in the Inspector and select the new set of settings. That one window is now transparent, without affecting the others that were started with the same set of settings. The reason I wanted to do this was so I could put this window on top of another window that had similar (but not identical) output and visually inspect to see the difference.

Consider the following: vs: It is much easier to quickly glance at the screen and spot the difference between the two. That is an interesting use of transparency. I do wonder, though -- if these texts are things you have on disk, or if you can pipe them or save them to disk, you could use a variety of diff tools for the same thing. There's 'diff' at the unix command line; there's FileMerge which installs with the Apple XCode tools; there's the cross-platform DiffMerge program; and many others. Maybe this would be a more general solution, especially when your data doesn't fit on one screen?