On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 07:44:22PM +0200, Julian Leyh wrote: > (once again sorry.. should be sent to the list..) > > On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:10:04 -0600 > Harshwardhan Nagaonkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > These are the relevant lines in my .fvwm2rc file. What other changes > > did you have to do to get a translucent pager (you can see > > windows/text that are overlapped by the pager)? > > real transparency (aka translucency) depends on your X server. > if you use XFree86 or X.org, that won't be possible. > > The Xserver from freedesktop.org supports real transparency, some other > out there may too. > > The translucency patch only works for the menus.. and it's not really > real transparency, only simulated real transparency ;) > you'll notice that the translucent parts won't update if the content of > the underlying window changes. >
Thank you very much, this saves much my work ;). My idea was clocks and pager in the right down corner, always on top and translucent. I will probably move both without trans*ency to the right top corner which hardly ever contains anything important ;-). (exactly a bit far from right because of those three window's buttons), > btw. i asked something similar few days ago.. > i solved it using autohide on a FvwmButtons with StaysOnTop, which > swallowed FvwmPager(see the faq, last point). > In fact, i'm using two FvwmPager, one in the autohiding FvwmButtons and > one with StaysOnBottom directly where the unhidden FvwmButtons appears. > This way i see the pager when it is not covered and if it is covered, i > can move the mouse to where it should be and i'll see it. > Nice people here, -- Dalibor Straka -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
