[openbox] Having transparency "issues"

Myles Green rmg57 at telus.net
Sat Jun 28 18:44:56 EDT 2008


On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:57:24 -0700
Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us> wrote:

>Howdy,
>
>I am running openbox 3.4.7.2 on FreeBSD 8-current, with an up to date
>xorg installation. I'm shopping for a new taskbar so I've tried tint
>and fbpanel. However, I can't get either of them to be transparent.
>I've read the FAQ, and I tried both with and without xcompmgr, no dice.
>
>I noticed the following thread on a Debian forum, so it doesn't seem
>to be OS-specific:
>http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=27769&sid=137825ae4e86b96b2937930a9a770363
>
>To see if it's application/type specific I also tried roxterm and that
>did not work, but aterm transparency does work. Weird.
>
>If anyone has a clue or something to try (including patches) I'm game.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Doug

Hi Doug,
You might want to look at lxpanel (part of LXDE but can be used
separately), it works as you'd like for me (Ubuntu 8.04).
HTH,
Myles



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