Re: FVWM: Yes! I did it! Almost everything is transparent!

[Mikhael Goikhman]

On 16 Dec 2002 16:48:33 +0000, Richard Curnow wrote:
> 
> > screenshot: http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ugk8/screenshot.png
> 
> Which version of fvwm do you have this working on?
> 
> I've looked at your config files and tried to adapt bits of them to my
> setup.  I'm trying both 2.5.4 and 2.5.5.
> 
> After a struggle I finally managed to get transparent menus like this:
> 
> Colorset 0 fg white, bg black, Shape, Plain
> Colorset 0 Transparent
> #Colorset 0 RootTransparent
> Colorset 0 tint black 30
> MenuStyle * MenuColorset 0

You don't really need to split a colorset definition to 3 lines,
see enother message in this thread that explains speed problems.

> ... but if I uncomment the 3rd Colorset line, I just get white text on
> black menus with no transparency.

To use RootTransparent use should run "fvwm-root -r bg-image.png|xpm"
first. Or Esetroot.

> I can't get transparent title bars or borders at all though.  With title
> bars I'm trying to do
> 
> Colorset 1 fg white, bg black, Shape, Plain
> Colorset 1 Transparent
> Colorset 1 tint #4060a0 30
> TitleStyle    Inactive Colorset 1
> 
> but this has no effect and I just get a syntax error reported on the
> console:
>     unknown style Colorset : Colorset 1

You need 2.5.5 for this.

Only RootTransparent works in titles, not Transparent.

> Any clues?  The syntax for this stuff doesn't seem to be documented much
> yet.

It is currently fully documented in the FvwmTheme man page that is
referred in the COLORSETS section of the fvwm man page, is not it?

Regards,
Mikhael.
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