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Originally posted by witeshark That rocks. Love the "may the source be with you" The only window I know of that can use transparency in Mac is the CLI (terminal)
Actually, many apps support it. These include the Dock, Adium, X-Chat Aqua, Stickies, and Microsoft 2004 which isn't out yet but is coming before it's Windows counterpart. If you have the source to any Cocoa app the way to make a window transparent is as easy as one line in the Terminal.
I still haven't really played with OSX much but I plan to soon. Just got an iBook G3 900, 640mb, cdwr/dvd, etc. this week and have been working on getting Gentoo on it and perfected. Once I feel like it's there I'll play around with Panther a bit
Originally posted by Scruff Here is my newest. I tried aterm after reading a few posts on it and am loving it. Transparency with no window decorations is very cool
I've been messing around with the same thing and I like it. I've been looking for that effect for a long time. The only issue I'm having is that the scrollbar shows up like this.
I'm sure its just another switch to use with aterm but I don't know which one.
Can someone please explain how they set a background image in flux, that actually sticks around? I've followed the documentation but for some reason, when I logout / login, the image isn't showing anymore. On top of that, when it is in view, there's a white border around the image.
Also - how would I go about setting menu transparencies through flux?
Originally posted by Crashed_Again I've been messing around with the same thing and I like it. I've been looking for that effect for a long time. The only issue I'm having is that the scrollbar shows up like this.
I'm sure its just another switch to use with aterm but I don't know which one.
Originally posted by breakerfall Can someone please explain how they set a background image in flux, that actually sticks around? I've followed the documentation but for some reason, when I logout / login, the image isn't showing anymore. On top of that, when it is in view, there's a white border around the image.
Also - how would I go about setting menu transparencies through flux?
I use 'wmsetbg filename.jpg' at the bottm of my .xinitrc to set mine. You need to put a '&' after the last line first though, like this:
# Start the window manager:
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox &
wmsetbg ~/custom/wallpaper/source2.jpg
You can change the menu transparency by right click, fluxbox menu, configure, 'menu alpha'. Just lower the value.
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