[openbox] Transparency

[Andreas Fink]

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

regards
andreas