> how did you get that transparency to work?
"/etc/init.d/gdm stop" as root to stop the display manager so I can
start X manually; then I log in as a regular user and start X with:
startx -- +extension RENDER +extension Composite +extension DAMAGE
+extension XFIXES
(I think only RENDER and Composite are necessary for transparency;
DAMAGE is for Skippy-XD to allow it to update thumbnails, and I
seem to remember XFIXES being somehow related to something, so I threw
it in too.)
Startx will start X and run my ~/.xinitrc, which contains
gnome-settings-daemon &
gnome-keyring-daemon &
e17
then from within E17 I start a terminal and run "xcompmgr" which
AFAIK takes care of compositing windows on behalf of WMs that don't
have managers built in (E16 does now, and AFAIR it works faster than
xcompmgr, but this test box has an out of date E16 build...). "xcompmgr
-c" will do drop shadows on all windows (rather than just on the
desktop).
Then "transset <value from 0 to 1>" and click on a window will set the
window's transparency level (toggles between 0.75 and 1 by default)
Versions:
X Window System Version 6.8.2 (Ubuntu 6.8.2-10 20050405154308
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
-- xorg, as installed by default
xcompmgr 1.1.1+cvs.2004
-- from the xcompmgr package
transset 0.1.0+cvs.2004
-- from the transset package
Window managers should be irrelevant, but in my single test E16+compmgr
works much faster than E17+compmgr (no idea why):
Enlightenment Version: 0.16.8
Last updated on: $Date: 2004/12/29 00:15:31 $
-- e16 -version
0.16.999.002
-- from E17's "about" screen, 2005-03-12 is the binary's timestamp
Both from CVS.
-- Shish
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