On 20-Dec-2001 Michael Hostbaek wrote: > Hi, > > I am running BB and setting my background wih bsetbg (and it works fine) > - I have transparency in my aterm's without any problems... However, I'd > like to enable transparency in xchat as well.. I am searched around, and > contacted xchat authors, without success, though.. > So I was kinda hoping, one of you guys have had the same problem.. ? > > When I try to enable the trans. in xchat, I get the following error: > "Unable to get root window pixmap!" - "You may need to use Esetroot or > Gnome control-center to set your background." >
Open the source and look for the Atom they use to find the pixmap. If aterm COULD be working because it falls back to setting its background to be ParentRelative which attempts to load the Parent's pixmap.
