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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... )
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.
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.
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.
Distribution: DEBIAN! - (also used: Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware, SuSE, BestLinux, EasyLinux, muLinux...)
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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.
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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?
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.
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