Just switched to Fluxbox and have a question or 2

paulisdead · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 510 Location: Seattle, WA

I just switched to fluxbox from KDE and it's pretty good. The menu is pretty easy to customize, I've even added entries to mount and unmount my CD rom and floppy. I'm just curious, is there a theme to get transparent menus like with mosfet's liquide under KDE? Probably not, huh? Also, I've heard you can get desktop icons with the ROX file manager, but I can't figure out how. I've searched here and some other forums, and of course google, but just can't seem to find an answer.

taskara · Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 12:17 am Post subject:

yeah I also use fluxbox, and you can get transparencies happening.. but I dunno how

handsomepete · Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 1:47 am Post subject:

If you've got some spare time and some spare brain cycles, check these out:

http://xfree86.org/~keithp/talks/KeithPackardAls2000/index.html
http://www.eax.com/render/

The first (at a glance) appears to be an article on translucency. The second is the Xrender homepage, which seems very interesting (perhaps a bit dated

).

I wouldn't mind some menu/general transparency effects in Fluxbox (a la something like the Snail theme for Window Maker). Right now I think it's app dependent (i.e. eterm supports fake transparency as a terminal).

mellofone · Apprentice Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 287

I've tried to change the backgound and haven't had any luck... Reading the docs, it says to use:

rootCommand: bsetbg -f /path/to/filename/image.jpg

It doesn't have any effect, and I can't seem to locate bsetbg.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Here's what I've used to set the background images...

mellofone · Apprentice Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 287