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Ive recently configured fluxbox almost 100% to my prefrences, i just cant get transparency to work, when i click on any window/taskbar it has the option to change but when i set different values nothing changes. also in aterm i cannot set any transparency options, not sure if they are related or not.
For Fluxbox check your ~/.fluxbox/init
cat ~/.fluxbox/init
make sure everything is pointing to your /home and not something like /usr/share/fluxbox
What do you use to set the background?
Esetroot or feh work good
Are you using ~/.fluxbox/startup?
for aterm I use .Xdefaults
Code:
aterm*cursorColor: green
aterm*colorMode: true
aterm*borderwidth: 0
aterm*pointerColor: yellow
aterm*transparent: true
aterm*shading: 60
aterm*background: black
aterm*foreground: white
aterm*scrollBar: false
aterm*fading: 60
aterm*saveLines:4500
aterm*geometry: 100x25+20+5
aterm*loginShell: True
aterm*font: -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
okay yeah that did it, i installed feh, loaded background, and now transparency works, only thing is now aterm looks like its not reading my .Xdefaults file, i copied/pasted yours and no change
cool works perfectly, one last request, the little box above the bar on the top of the window at top left, how do you remove that?
example: http://i19.tinypic.com/4yj4d1t.jpg
there a way to send programs to the fluxbar sys tray? ie audacious and firefox
also is there a way to doubleclick on menubar to maximize without reinstalling from source?
Cool desktop comprookie2000!!
I'm looking that status viewer that you have on your desktop, but I don't know how it is called.
I'm having trouble now with the windows border transparency. I remember that before I ever used composite I could use "transparency" from fluxbox to make transparent the borders of the windows and the menu, but now it simply wont work.
Could you please describe the software we can see in that pic?
The other problem I'm having now is that when I use xcompmgr the background turns black. =(
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