Thanks! I just made it run at opacity .55 and I LOVE IT! Thanks! On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 11:25 PM Thomas Frohwein <tfrohw...@fastmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 05:03:55PM -0600, Luke Small wrote: > > I'm running fvwm window manager and I just switched to -current. Roxterm > is > > totally messed up, won't do transparent background and I tried > > xfce4-terminal and it says it won't do transparent backgrounds because > > compositing is disabled.... Sure first-world problems, but I REALLY want > > fvwm to do transparent terminal emulators! > > You can just run a compositor. xcompmgr(1) is in the X install. I > personally > use compton from the package of the same name. picom (also in packages) is > supposed to be a successor to compton. They allow more compositor tricks > than xompmgr. > > I've never got application's transparency settings to work well, so my > .kshrc (set in ENV in .profile) contains lines calling transset-df from > the package of the same name: > > [ -n "$XTERM_VERSION" ] && transset-df --id "$WINDOWID" 0.85 > /dev/null > [ -n "$KITTY_WINDOW_ID" ] && transset-df --id "$WINDOWID" 0.85 > /dev/null >
