fluxbox menu transparency Prob
I just switched to fluxbox a few days ago and I love the sleek uncluttered view. I'm thirsty for more style and I want transparent menus.
I've tried setting the menuAlpha to 160 in the .fluxbox/init file as well as the style file. Neither of those worked. I'm using fbsetbg and I've got feh installed as well. I've tried adding wpsetters=feh to the fbsetbg line and it did'nt work either. I've tried it with both the development and stable versions of fluxbox. Googled it a few times with no info of use. I've checked the faq on the website too and had no luck. If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it... Shamon |
What version of fluxbox are you running? Transparency is only supported in the development release. Currently, 0.9.8.
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I tried it using both 0.1.4 and 0.9.8
Currently I'm using 0.9.8 Thanks for the reply :) |
Are you attempting to modify .fluxbox/init while Fluxbox is running? This won't work in some cases.
Have you tried setting the alpha through the menu? (fluxbox menu > configure > Menu Alpha) Right-click increases and left-click decreases. You may need to restart fluxbox for the changes to take effect, but I'm not sure on this. |
I don't seem to have a menu option for alpha. I'll try editing the init file while I'm not using fluxbox.
I'll let you know if it works, thanks (y) |
No it did'nt help I'm afraid. Any other suggestions?
Oh and I doubt it but, does menu transparency not work withough graphics acceleration? |
I do remember that you have to use a program to set your root windows background that supports transparency. I'm currently using Esetroot which comes with Eterm.
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Right sorry about taking a while to reply. (was redoing floor in computer room)
Yes I have been using Esetroot. Any other suggestions? Thanks. |
Okay I fixed it!
For some reason fluxbox ver. 0.9.8 was'nt working with transparency. Somehow after installing the fluxbox 9.6pre1 it started working. So if anyone else on a slackware 9.1 distro is having problems with menu transparency, try switching flux versions. cheers. |
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