XFCE mods

onelung02 · 05-09-2005, 02:56 AM

I am running slack current with XFCE and I was wondering, is there anyway that I can get the launcher bar that is on the bottom by defualt to be transparent? That would rock:-). Thanks again!

onelung

xushi · 05-09-2005, 03:02 AM

http://www.loculus.nl/xfce/documenta...ce4-panel.html
Go down to the Transparency section. This might do the trick.

shilo · 05-10-2005, 12:53 AM

From the link posted by Xushi:

Quote:

Please, note that transparency only works with an X server that supports the Composite extension, like XOrg >= 6.8.0 and the composite extension has been enabled in the configuration file and the window manager supports it (e.g. xfwm4 has to be compiled with --enable-compositor).

From xfce.SlackBuild:

Quote:

# From the COMPOSITOR file in xfwm4:
#
# xfwm4 now features a compositing manager. This code is new and has received only
# a moderate amount of testing, so it's disabled by default.
#
# So, if you want to stay safe, keep the compositor disabled...
#
# If you still want to try the compositor extensions with xfwm4, here follows how
# to enable the compositing manager in xfwm4.
#
# 1) Enabling the compositor manager in xfwm4
# -------------------------------------------
#
# To enable the compositing manager in xfwm4, add --enable-compositor when running
# the configure script.
#

So a recompile of xfce is in order before anything else. This is actually pretty easy. Look to your favorite Slackware mirror. I just download the entire xap/xfce directory and edit xfce.SlackBuild. After that, just run xfce.SlackBuild and look in /tmp for the new package. Use upgradepkg to install it.