session Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Ok, yeah. I'm totally new but thats what I'm wondering! :) How to make windows transparent :unsure: I remember seeing it somewhere! :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac15 Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 WindowShadeX is the utility your after, its availiable from here http://unsanity.com/haxies/wsx/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrelusive978 Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 :ninja: A way to do it all the time? then I could 'Work Through' tasks in the background...like watch a qt movie on the desktop and continue working in the finder but being able to see thru the windows? :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurmoth Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 WindowShadeX is the utility your after, its availiable from here http://unsanity.com/haxies/wsx/ Does this slow down the system like the apps that make transparent windows in Windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbalsh Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Does this slow down the system like the apps that make transparent windows in Windows? It all depends on the speed and memory of your Graphics Card, but even on a 32MB card this would be quite workable with a few windows open, but a little too distracting for me :) For instace this picture has a large Qucktime Movie playing under a transparent terminal at full speed with no slowdown :cool: and i've only got a GeForce2 MX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurmoth Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 That's cool! I have a Windows XP Professional (Athlon 64, ATI Radeon 9600 with 256MB of memory) and the computer still seems a little slower with transparent windows. I'm hoping that will be built into the next version ("Longhorn") without having 3rd party apps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbalsh Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Yeah it will, Longhorn has ripped of the QuartzExtreme Desktop Composite, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristotle-dude Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Yeah it will, Longhorn has ripped of the QuartzExtreme Desktop Composite, Yeah just don't tell Paul Thurott that. ;) We would not want to shatter his so called "reality". :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurmoth Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Ain't that for real. I like Paul's site because it's very informational, but he didn't need to get so mad about what he did. I agree with him that Mac OS X doesn't hold users' hands to get through the OS and I agree that with people who don't know that much, the constant hand holding isn't a bad thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 For instace this picture has a large Qucktime Movie playing under a transparent terminal at full speed with no slowdown :cool: and i've only got a GeForce2 MX Uhhh, you are aware that Terminal can do transparency all by itself, without a third party utility, right? Heck, even on my 400Mhz G3 PowerBook it doesn't slow down anything by setting it to partially transparent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling3k12 Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 I'm pretty sure he knows that, seeing as only the colored part of the terminal is transparent and not the whole window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
session Posted January 15, 2004 Author Share Posted January 15, 2004 It all depends on the speed and memory of your Graphics Card, but even on a 32MB card this would be quite workable with a few windows open, but a little too distracting for me :)For instace this picture has a large Qucktime Movie playing under a transparent terminal at full speed with no slowdown :cool: and i've only got a GeForce2 MX so how can i make it transparent like in the screenshot? just by using WindowShadeX? I've heard of TransLucy. How is it compared with WSX? :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
session Posted January 15, 2004 Author Share Posted January 15, 2004 Ph and btw, I would like it to be a freeware as well :/ :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 so how can i make it transparent like in the screenshot? just by using WindowShadeX? I've heard of TransLucy. How is it compared with WSX?:blink:k: There's actually a setting for this in Terminal's preferences. Go to the Terminal menu, Window Settings, Color. It's at the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoMayhem Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Does this slow down the system like the apps that make transparent windows in Windows? Nope, not at all :p I really do watch movies behind windows and it works perfectly :p This is where you can really see how good OS X is, or how bad windows is.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
session Posted January 16, 2004 Author Share Posted January 16, 2004 Nope, not at all :pI really do watch movies behind windows and it works perfectly :p This is where you can really see how good OS X is, or how bad windows is.... yeah. this week is my first time realizing why people always say 'once you use a mac, you wouldn't wanna use pc every again!' :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 so how can i make it transparent like in the screenshot? just by using WindowShadeX? I've heard of TransLucy. How is it compared with WSX?:blink:k: Well, Terminal has the transparency preference built in. Some other programs do too. For all other windows, WindowShade X is the way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrelusive978 Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 :ninja: I will never install an APE app again. Every time I do, the aped file causes the Finder in 10.3.2 to take 87-98 percent of my CPU. The only way to fix this is to boot in verbose mode and trash all files related to APE. I hate you, Unsanity. I WAS going to buy SS; not anymore. :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
session Posted January 18, 2004 Author Share Posted January 18, 2004 :ninja: I will never install an APE app again. Every time I do, the aped file causes the Finder in 10.3.2 to take 87-98 percent of my CPU. The only way to fix this is to boot in verbose mode and trash all files related to APE. I hate you, Unsanity. I WAS going to buy SS; not anymore. :ninja: lol i thought people had no problem using them? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrelusive978 Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 :ninja: This happens to me only in 10.3, and it happens every time. APE even hoses a virgin install...at least for me. :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted January 18, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 18, 2004 Interesting situation, mrelusive. Have you tried contacting Unsanity about this? Slava is a pretty approachable guy and may have a pretty in-depth solution. Building something like APE isn't exactly child's play. It involves a pretty low-level understanding of the Mac OS X subsystem. There's bound to be issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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