Gr_Terror Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 ive been running fedora core 1 for 7 days got all things pretty much to work but im looking for eye candy things (missing my xp desktop :) ) Im looking for trasparency stuff- the only transparent things in kde3.1 are the konsoles and even this isnt "real" trasparency.Is there any way to see real trasparency in linux? is it an xfree or kde limitation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gr_Terror Posted January 17, 2004 Author Share Posted January 17, 2004 why wont anyone reply to my threads? at least reply to me at this question Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 humm the pundits are on strike i think .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sethrd Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 Dude, give people more then 30 minutes. E-Term did real time transparencies I believe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rezza Veteran Posted January 17, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 17, 2004 It's a limitation of the way X works at the moment. There are people working on this type of stuff though, and it will be in X soon, but for the moment if you want transparency, I think you're gonna have to patch your X with unstable alpha or beta transparency patches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG-Cloud Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 It's a limitation of the way X works at the moment. There are people working on this type of stuff though, and it will be in X soon, but for the moment if you want transparency, I think you're gonna have to patch your X with unstable alpha or beta transparency patches. *nods* Also, you may want to check out http://freedesktop.org/Software/xserver - the freedesktop.org Xserver It was built from the ground up afaik, so it does not yet support hardware acceleration for video cards or opengl from what I've read.. However, it does have transparency and drop shadows on windows, and apparently runs as fast as Xfree (due to smaller, more optimized code). I think Mr. Static Void and syscrash2k experimented with these from their posts on the desktop thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gr_Terror Posted January 18, 2004 Author Share Posted January 18, 2004 where can i find these alpha patches for x? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gr_Terror Posted January 18, 2004 Author Share Posted January 18, 2004 Assuming i install xserver i will need to patch kde or gnome too in order to take advantage of the trasparency features right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=...dpost&p=1402218 That was my desktop a few months back when I played around with Xserver. It was much too buggy for everyday use. The windows moved very slowly and there was no hardware acceleration. GNOME did not need to be patched, I just ran a program in the background and it just worked. Unfortunately, there was no way to configure what had transparency and how much transparency. That will all come in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 In KDE 3.1, you can do menu transparencies! :) But unfortunately, some styles may not be able to support it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Douglas Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 In KDE 3.1, you can do menu transparencies! :) But unfortunately, some styles may not be able to support it. he's looking for _real_ transparency, not the screenshot type Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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