That cool transparency in X

lhoff · 02-12-2002, 01:38 PM

Which wm's or desktop envirnments do that cool transparency effect? I've been looking at screenshots for xFCe and Window Manager. But I remember seeing screenshots a couple of months ago with Gnome doing it, but I was never able to get mine to. How's it done?

(I know I'll be deciding to stop it after a week, having decided I can't read my terminal screens with it on...

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Tx.

ryanstrayer · 02-12-2002, 04:49 PM

I assume you are talking about the terminal windows.. if so, there other terms besides the lame XTerm ... I use ETerm which has the tranparency feature.. and I believe there is another called ATerm.. can't remember exactly.

dj_relentless · 02-13-2002, 12:07 AM

Yea I thought the effect was coolo until I tried it..and then realised what it does...I put it back cause it felt like a waste of resources..

isajera · 02-13-2002, 12:25 AM

Eterm is my favorite terminal - yeah, it wastes resources, but it's a freakin' beautiful program - i have it on my enlightenment desktop, transparent and borderless.

it's a great waste of resources.

el_felipe · 02-13-2002, 11:51 AM

isajera nice choice! ; ]

I also run Enlightenment but my transparent term is gnome-terminal: borderless & lowered... didn't they say E is a desktop shell after all?

However most of the time I end up using xterm

el_felipe

isajera · 02-13-2002, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by el_felipe
isajera nice choice! ; ]

I also run Enlightenment but my transparent term is gnome-terminal: borderless & lowered... didn't they say E is a desktop shell after all?

not quite - enlightenment 0.16.5 is a window manager that can be run easily with gnome - it doesn't include a file manager or stuff like that. E0.17, which is in development, aims to be a desktop shell, which will have a file manager and other nice stuff built in.

el_felipe · 02-13-2002, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by isajera

not quite - enlightenment 0.16.5 is a window manager that can be run easily with gnome - it doesn't include a file manager or stuff like that. E0.17, which is in development, aims to be a desktop shell, which will have a file manager and other nice stuff built in.

ok ok, but it was just a nonsense: transparent terminal => shell that seems to be part of the desktop image => E project soon to be called a desktop shell => stupid joke by el_felipe.

; ]

PS: anyway I'm really hoping to test soon E17, although I heard some bad opinions about its file manager. Do you know anything about that?

isajera · 02-13-2002, 01:16 PM

well... e17 is taking way to long to get going... the file manager is actually an impressive piece of programming, but it's getting to be bloatware lately. mostly it's just a memory hog.
i download the cvs stuff and try it out every so often. it's getting more stable, but there are a lot of features still missing. it's going to be really beautiful if they ever get it finished. i think the developers might have been trying to do a bit too much when they started planning it out, tho.