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PostPosted: Sun May 19, 2002 12:28 am    Post subject: Transperancy within fluxbox possible? Reply with quote

Ok, I have pretty much figured out how to use fluxbox accept for one thing. How do I make it so that I can use transperency in konsole? I mean I know how to go into the options and set it up within the konsole settings but fluxbox seems to not allow transparency or something. Thanx :D
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PostPosted: Sun May 19, 2002 2:37 am    Post subject: Re: Transperancy within fluxbox possible? Reply with quote

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Ok, I have pretty much figured out how to use fluxbox


Really? Would you mind telling me how those stupid tabs work?
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PostPosted: Sun May 19, 2002 2:48 am    Post subject: Re: Transperancy within fluxbox possible? Reply with quote

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Really? Would you mind telling me how those stupid tabs work?



The Ultimate Guide to Fluxbox Tabs
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PostPosted: Sun May 19, 2002 5:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

To have transparency you have to set the background in the proper mannor, I use Eterms -- Esetroot but here is a link to the fluxbox docs:

http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docs/newdoc.backgrounds.php#top
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PostPosted: Sun May 19, 2002 1:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I first emerged eterm and started using it there was a menu on the top that allowed me to change backgrounds/set transparency/fonts etc. Then it vanished after a restart of X. Anyone know how I can get that convenience back?
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PostPosted: Sun May 19, 2002 6:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

delete the .eterm folder in your home directory and next time you start eterm you'll have those menus back
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PostPosted: Sun May 19, 2002 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well what I was talking about wasn't really about Eterm but the actual way you set the background on your desktop, if you use xv you can't have transparency in a term.

Oh and I'll give you a nice little tip, try holding Ctrl + Right Click and Ctrl + Center Click on Eterm :)
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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2002 2:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks for the tip autobot... that's cool.

handsomepete, I was playing around with some other key/mouse combinations and found that ctrl-shift-rightmouseclick toggles the menu at the top of the Eterm.

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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2002 3:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love fluxobx, but I jut turn the tabs off. I too use Eterm for t-parency
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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2002 12:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

AutoBot wrote:
Oh and I'll give you a nice little tip, try holding Ctrl + Right Click and Ctrl + Center Click on Eterm :)


kcsduke wrote:
and found that ctrl-shift-rightmouseclick toggles the menu at the top of the Eterm


Thanks fellas. That's neat. Just out of curiousity, what are the chances of realtime transparency ever weaseling its way into X/these programs (i.e. where you can drag the window and it is actually transparent as you move it, not just copying the image it's on top of)? Or does this already exist? I know that this is a totally unnecessary thing for any program to have, but you've got to admit that it's cool to look at once in a while... :)
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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2002 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

aterm will also give you transparency.. but it is not real-time. it will always go trasparent to the part of background you have it over.

i prefer aterm to Eterm
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PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2002 3:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

handsomepete wrote:
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Oh and I'll give you a nice little tip, try holding Ctrl + Right Click and Ctrl + Center Click on Eterm :)


kcsduke wrote:
and found that ctrl-shift-rightmouseclick toggles the menu at the top of the Eterm


Thanks fellas. That's neat. Just out of curiousity, what are the chances of realtime transparency ever weaseling its way into X/these programs (i.e. where you can drag the window and it is actually transparent as you move it, not just copying the image it's on top of)? Or does this already exist? I know that this is a totally unnecessary thing for any program to have, but you've got to admit that it's cool to look at once in a while... :)

You can do this with Eterm by using the following two options:

--background-pixmap

and

--viewport-mode

By setting your your background pixmap to the same as your wallpaper, then activating viewport mode it will appear that you have realtime transparency...ie when you move Eterm your background moves at the same time.
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