[openbox] Transparency

Frank McCormick beacon at videotron.ca
Mon Dec 21 11:50:07 EST 2009


On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:26:37 -0500
Dave Foster <daf at minuslab.net> wrote:

> Andreas Fink wrote:
> >
> > How is a composite manager useful in this situation? I think he
> > wants to have a transparent background with an opaque  font. 
> According to their screenshots, fluxbox offers fake menu
> transparency, as opposed to real transparency available with a
> composite manager.  I'd prefer the latter.


  I have both on my machine and yes, it is fake transparency. But for some
reason (perhaps stupidity) I have never been able to get xcompmgr working on
this machine. Any advice or step by step would be appreciated :)


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Frank<beacon at videotron.ca>


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