On 14 February 2006 09:12, Iain Buchanan wrote: > 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 (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... > > > > 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?
The panel doesn't use the alpha channel. That's fine for the panel because you usually don't move it around a lot. Windows like konsole, on the other hand, can be dragged around. If you do that with a transparent window not using the alpha channel it eats a *lot* of CPU. Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
