On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 03:41 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> 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.
aha, thank you for that great explanation. However, I have edited
xorg.conf as required with
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
and
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
(I have an ati) but I still get the control centre message about
translucency not available... (of course, I restarted X :) Also, is
there supposed to be a command called kompmgr? I can't locate it.
thanks,
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