[openbox] Transparency

[Frank McCormick]

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:25:40 +0100
Andreas Fink <andreas.fink85 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 21 December 2009 17:50:07 Frank McCormick wrote:
> > 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 :)
> > 
> 
> Here some kind of step by step:
> 1. download xcompmanager (the one from dana, since the original one
> does not have menu transparency)
> 2. unpack it
> 3. cd to the directory (dana/xcompmgr.git)
> 4. ./autogen.sh
> 5. make
> 6. ./xcompmgr -m 0.8 -f -I 0.08 -O 0.1

   Thanks very much. Even I can follow that :)



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