[openbox] OpenBox 3.0 and Transparency [longish]

[Marius Nita]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:55:53AM -0700, Cibao Cu' Ali G. Colibri wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I've got a bit of an issue here that I was wondering if someone with more 
> clue than I could help me resolve:
> 
> I've been dinkering with this for a bit now and am stumped for ideas.
> 
> Under 2.x I had no problems with getting aterm to properly display the root 
> image that was set using Esetroot.
> 
> For example:
> 
> % Esetroot <image>
> 
> and then
> 
> % aterm -tr
> 
> Would open an aterm that would display the background <image> "through" it.
> 
> This would continue to work properly, regardless of how many themes I'd 
> switch through-
> 
> However, the same actions don't work the same under 3.0.
> 
> % Esetroot <image>
> 
> will still set the root image properly
> 
> but, (and here's where I get stuck) the same term command
> 
> % aterm -tr
> 
> only works on the following conditions:
> 
> 1.) If it's called within the first 10 seconds (or so) of starting X, it'll 
> work just like 2.x did - until those 10 seconds have passed.
> 
> Then-
> 
> 2.) The aterm will still appear with the background image set *until* the 
> window is moved, drawn over, minimized/maximized or text is scolled inside 
> of it. Basically, anything that causes the window to be re-drawn.
> 
> It will then default to the blank slate-gray BG as specified by the theme.
> 
> The theme that I'm currently using is the default "Blah41" that's included 
> with Openbox 3.0, with no modifications.
> 
> I've looked at the ObConf utility, but it's rather sparse and doesn't 
> provide any setting for the BG (as per the documentation).
> 
> I've tried using the old 'root.command' setting within the theme, but 
> that's now (apparently) deprecated.
> 
> I'm sure this is something simple that I'm overlooking or making seem much 
> more complicated than it actually is, but I'm stumped for the time being.
> 
> Any assistance, clues, or FM to R would be greatly appreciated. =)
> 


Jesus fuck!