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elboricua
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 Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 6:41 pm Post subject: Transparency is gone in Fluxbox after upgrade |
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Hello all,
This is very strange. I used to be able to have transparancy in Fluxbox. In ver 0.1.9 it worked no probs. I did the following to my system and it no longer works:
emerge --clean rsync
emerge unmerge fluxbox
emerge clean
emerge fluxbox
This loaded the new version but the styles and such were gone. I searched the portage tree and saw a commonbox-utils and commonbox-themes. I emerged both. Now I have fluxboxes themes, I can set my background using bsetbg but I cannot find wmsetbg..... strange.
Anyone know what I forgot?
TIA,
Angel
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| Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 6:45 pm Post subject: Re: Transparency is gone in Fluxbox after upgrade |
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| Megatron2121 wrote: | Hello all,
This is very strange. I used to be able to have transparancy in Fluxbox. In ver 0.1.9 it worked no probs. I did the following to my system and it no longer works:
emerge --clean rsync
emerge unmerge fluxbox
emerge clean
emerge fluxbox
This loaded the new version but the styles and such were gone. I searched the portage tree and saw a commonbox-utils and commonbox-themes. I emerged both. Now I have fluxboxes themes, I can set my background using bsetbg but I cannot find wmsetbg..... strange.
Anyone know what I forgot?
TIA,
Angel |
wmsetbg is part of WindowMaker's package... you need to "emerge WindowMaker" to get that 
As far as transparency... I don't know.
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pablored
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| Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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wmsetbg supports transparancy, unlike xv, bsetbg et al. I think Esetroot (from Eterm) is the only other option if you need that.
I wonder what resources these different 'background-ing' methods use? Is one speedier than another? |
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elboricua
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| Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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Doh! my bad I enmerge window maker..... Oh well I still would like to get my transparency back in Fluxbox. I am not sure why it stopped working. Only thing different is that Fluxbox is now 0.1.10
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elboricua
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| Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2002 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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I got it fixed. :slaps head: :yells: :DOH!!!:
I needed to change the command that I use to set my wallpaper. Basically all I did was change the following in my .fluxbox/init file.
session.screen0.rootCommand: bsetbg -f /wall/stars.jpg
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session.screen0.rootCommand: Esetroot -f /wall/stars.jpg
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tactless
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This might have something to do with it: Fluxbox v0.1.9 had a bsetbg which relied on other "setbgs"... wmbg or Esetroot, for example. Fluxbox v0.1.10 uses a standalone bsetbg which, unfortunately, does not support transparency. I don't know if the new bsetbg comes from the fluxbox package itself or one of its accompaniers.
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elboricua
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| Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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I think it definitely has something to do with losing transparency. I guess I needed to RTFM and STFW before posting  
Glad I found the answer though.... 
| Quote: | bsetbg
bsetbg is a higher-level program, sort of. It's actually a wrapper to other utilities that can set backgrounds, such as wmsetbg, Esetroot, the 'display' program from ImageMagick, etc. When it's first run, it will create a ~/.fluxbox/bsetbg config file, which will set up which programs it can use. You can edit this at any time to select which to use. (NOTE: in order to use 'transparent' applications, such as Xchat and Eterm with transparency, You should use either wmsetbg or Esetroot. |
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virus
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| Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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Heh I read lots about fluxbox in this forum never realizing what it was... a successor to the almighty blackbox! kewl! The _good_ looking WM =)
I always did my backgrounds with Esetroot for transparency... it's eyecandy but I usually go back to regular red on black rxvt within a day =)
So is fluxbox as kewl as it sounds? (anything improving on blackbox should be flashy)
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