On Friday 06 February 2009, Noorul Islam K M wrote:
> > pics here:
> > http://pics.zenerves.net/index.php?gallery=linux/Screens
>
> Which theme are you using? And how did you bring in the transparency to
> the windows?

Hi Noorul

:) I love my E, I really DO :) Some of the screenshots there are really old... 
It was already 
possible!

Theme is my favorite, the ever-standard "winter" that looks so right with the 
subtle, thin/fast 
windows of E16.

Transparency is now coming to full windows thanks to the new Compositor (from 
0.16.8.xx onwards I 
think), it allows you to fine tune from 100 to 0%; rmb-click, jump to Composite 
Settings :) I love 
my default 97% of opacity rather than 100, it enlights (pun intended) the whole 
desktop.

Add the ability of the Terminal not to display it"s background, and you reach 
compiz-level of 
graphic complexities with true transparencies on  system that boots in 2.5 
secs. I even tweaked 
t§he orientation of the shadows, it took me a good 35 seconds to find them in a 
text file at the 
root of ~/.e16 & start tweaking!


About this Transparent terminal, here is what I said yesterday on the Linux 
Facebook group about, 
replying to quite the same question:

""
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linux/13932695724?ref=mf#/photo.php?pid=30182042&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=13932695724&aid=-1&oid=13932695724&id=1154962303
""
Tropicalicecube Phnompenh at 10:00, on 05 February

As such, running a Transparent, PlainScreen Terminal with no menus or 
ScrollBars is easy; running it 
on top of Enlightenment DR16 gives you the opportunity to run it over a really 
sleek desk, to have 
it to start with every session in this exact way, and to stick to a Below stack 
so to be a 
real "background" terminal. The box on the right is my virtual desktops 
navigator (like 
9 'screens'); the left handle deploys a systray, the right one pops a little 
programme launcher. 
Neat, neat, neat.

Most Linux Distributions ship Enlightenment DR16 - you need e16-0.16.8, not 
0.16.999-something which 
is e17, very different.

More pictures here: http://pics.zenerves.net/index.php?gallery=linux/Screens 
You can request more 
help here: enlightenment-users/:@:/lists.sourceforge.net Website is 
http://www.enlightenment.org 
but it's very e17-oriented

Cheers!
""

Then, the ZEN aspects are up to you - i have only a systray, the sole epplet is 
the e-exec box; with 
the autostart of some terminals and the binding of xterm, everything is a 
breeze.

This runs on slackware12.2, but I just copied it from my former Fedora7 last 
month.

[An Howto is in the works, draft here:]
http://wiki.zenerves.net/index.php/E16-trsp
[My real, FOSS-advocacy life is here:]
http://tic.zenerves.net/index.html


Cheers - more soon, thanks for the comment.

ANY usability question welcome!

Jean-Philippe

-- 
Oh, wow!  Look at the moon!

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