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Re: Terminator transparency workaround

dummy@example.com (#!pelt) — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:42:45 +0000

A day late and a dollar short in this conversation, but thanks Corenominal. It is perfect! Thanks for #!, love it and finally stopped distro hopping.

Re: Terminator transparency workaround

dummy@example.com (Raffles10) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:09:32 +0000

I've never had a problem with Terminator transparency using xcompmgr-dana:

xcompmgr -I1 -O1 -Ff -m.80

This also gives a transparent menu.

Re: Terminator transparency workaround

dummy@example.com (toor58) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:04:59 +0000

Thanks iggykoopa.

Re: Terminator transparency workaround

dummy@example.com (Eskobar) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:13:49 +0000

Thanks corenominal

Re: Terminator transparency workaround

dummy@example.com (iggykoopa) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:20:01 +0000

I had the same issue a couple of months ago, it was very frustrating to figure out why. Glad to help ;)

Re: Terminator transparency workaround

dummy@example.com (koral) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:56:46 +0000

Thanks, iggykoopa. I added to conky config, and it solved my problem.

own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop

Cheers!

Re: Terminator transparency workaround

dummy@example.com (iggykoopa) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:46:36 +0000

you need to change your conky to:
own_window_type desktop
conky has some issues with some settings and compositing

Re: Terminator transparency workaround

dummy@example.com (koral) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:30:02 +0000

Ok, after I enabled it, workspace started behave really odd. Menus dessappeared, and i can see only what i selected with cursor. I tried switchind the gui theme, and openbox theme to different, but it makes no difference. Everything just keeps blinking.

Re: Terminator transparency workaround

dummy@example.com (Awebb) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:59:04 +0000

Openbox menu -> preferences -> composting -> one of the more obvious options there.

You can also edit your autostart.sh and add xcompmgr &

Re: Terminator transparency workaround

dummy@example.com (koral) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:30:07 +0000

corenominal wrote:

koral wrote:
I'v got the same thing as dr. cox. When you drag the window, the image stays locked in terminal.
Ho do i fix it?
Have you enabled compositing?

Noob question:
How to do that? :)

Re: Terminator transparency workaround

dummy@example.com (corenominal) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:45:04 +0000

koral wrote:

I'v got the same thing as dr. cox. When you drag the window, the image stays locked in terminal.
Ho do i fix it?

Have you enabled compositing?

Re: Terminator transparency workaround

dummy@example.com (koral) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:44:13 +0000

I'v got the same thing as dr. cox. When you drag the window, the image stays locked in terminal.
Ho do i fix it?

Re: Terminator transparency workaround

dummy@example.com (MissPride) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:34:04 +0000

Hehe, whoops... I mean, uh, I knew that! Um, yeah. :D"

Re: Terminator transparency workaround

dummy@example.com (corenominal) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:55:45 +0000

MissPride wrote:

Is there any way to make the body transparent while maintaining 100% opacity on the borders and title bar?

This should be possible without the use of the above script. Simply edit ~/.config/terminator/config and make sure it includes the following:

background_type=transparent
enable_real_transparency=true
background_darkness=0.8

Adjust background_darkness to your liking. Note the default Terminator config file already contains these lines, they are just commented out like so:

# Uncomment below to enable transparency
# --------------------------------------
#background_type=transparent
#enable_real_transparency=true
#background_darkness=0.8

Hope this helps. :)

Re: Terminator transparency workaround

dummy@example.com (MissPride) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:45:11 +0000

Thanks, corenominal! Worked like a charm! :D

Is there any way to make the body transparent while maintaining 100% opacity on the borders and title bar?