A minimalist window manager without title bars or borders needs a way to indicate which window has focus.
If you have compositing, one way to do it is, if you press the "Tell Me Which Window is Focused" key combination, all the non-focused windows get shaded darker (or blurred, etc.). The same can happen when cycling or switching between windows.
If you don't have compositing, you can get an extreme version of darker shading by painting over the non-focused windows black (or showing desktop background), temporarily completely hiding the non-focused windows.
An idea for XMonad, so I can recover that 1 pixel wide red border of screen real estate. Perhaps someone has already implemented this.
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