On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 00:35, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Welcome to my post, and remember to leave your flamewars at the door :) > > > > I've just installed KDE for the first time in a couple of years. It > > seems to have come a long way. > > > > However, I have some eye candy I want to bring from Gnome - transparent > > konsole is the first. > > turn on transparency in controll center (Arbeitsfläche is the menupoint ins > german, shouild be desktop in english, below it, there is 'window properties' > or so, where you can turn on transparency)
I found "translucency" - is that it? I couldn't turn it on because it asks for Xorg ≥ 6.8 (which I have) and some Xconfig changes. Is this really necessary? I had a transparent terminal with kde once already, and I didn't do anything special... > > Secondly, I start konsole with the following command (from another > > konsole): > > > > konsole --geometry -0-0 > > it works with > konsole -geometry 0x0 > and > konsole -geometry +0+0 > > see the singe - ? yes, but you should be able to specify a + OR - for the x and y offset as well: -geometry WxH+Xoffs+Yoffs where W: width H: height Xoffs: x offset* Yoffs: y offset* * x is relative to the left screen edge, if positive, and relative to right screen edge if negative. * y is relative to the top screen edge, if positive, and relative to the bottom screen edge, if negative. > > what's going on?!! > > - not -- I tried - instead of -- and the results are the same: -0-0 is not implemented properly... thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. -- Chuang-tzu -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list