On Tuesday 14 February 2006 01:12, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)': > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 07:40 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 06:34, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 00:35, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > > > > > turn on transparency in controll center > > > > > > I found "translucency" - is that it? > > > > Yes that's it, and yes you do have to change some settings in > > xorg.conf if you haven't done so already. > > why? I have panel transparency? already, so why do I need to do > something special for konsole transparency?
Kicker and Konsole both support a limited form of transparency. You'll set this limited form up through kicker/koncole specific configurations. In konsole you'll want to modify the scheme in use to have a transparent (or partially transparent) background (and maybe background text color). The WM-wide transparency is handled with the X composite extension (must modify xorg.conf) and kompmgr (which is automagically started with your KDE session, if KDE detects the composite extension is loaded). The window-bahavior transparency and shadows use kompmgr. The limited transparency is not, for what i understand, hw accelerated and shows the desktop background never other windows. The kompmgr transparency can be hw accelerated and will also show other windows, not just teh desktop background. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
