[openbox] Yet another question...

Miguel Bazdresch ob-01 at thewizardstower.org
Fri Apr 16 08:47:16 EDT 2004


* Tom <tom at abwaerts.be> [2004-04-16 14:40]:
> Now when I started XChat two minutes ago, it told me "Unable to set 
> transparent background. You may be using a non-compliant window manager 
> that is not currently supported." I just wonder (since I'm quite a 
> sucker for transparency): what exactly would Openbox be "non-compliant" 
> to? Put another way: how would Openbox be an obstacle for XChat to use 
> transparency?

I use xchat with transparency with no problems.

Ideas: make sure you compiled xchat with transparency support;
some "background changers" don't really change the root window so they
don't support transparency; i've used wmsetbg and Esetroot without
problems.

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Miguel Bazdresch
http://thewizardstower.org/



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