transparent desktops

charlescpc · 11-25-2004, 09:59 AM

I've seen some screenshots of desktops that have some windows transparent. They look pretty cool and I was wondering how you do that.

I was wondering if it was a special program you downloaded or whether you did that in Linux. So far I've only been able to get the taskbar transparent and it looks good.

Any Ideas

Thanks Charlie

hw-tph · 11-25-2004, 10:49 AM

A lot of programs support more or less fake transparency - take a snapshot of the desktop background and blend with the window contents. However, X.org 6.8.0 and later supports real transparency - you can fool around with it using xcompmgr. Almost all terminal emulators support fake transparency now - aterm, Eterm, even Gnome Terminal.

Håkan