Transparency in menu (Page 2 of 3)

Still getting this,

Maybe if I try again a little later.

I guess my next question is, do you have the crunchbang repositories enabled?

Those are for the old repositories. Try these two commands:

sudo wget http://crunchbang.net/packages-9.04.xx/crunchbang.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/crunchbang.list

sudo wget -q http://crunchbang.net/crunchbang.key -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

The Openbox menu doesn't support icons.

@omns

I've been looking for a way to add transparency to to menus for a long time. Thanks to both you and David - and everyone else - for this.

mick

Can anybody tell me what the xfce equivalent of autostart.sh is?

hmm, I've never used xfce in ubuntu but you need to start the Xfce Settings Manager. I believe it should start with the command 'xfce-setting-show' or if you are in xfce and can use its menu it should be in something like Applications --> Settings > Settings Manager. In the control panel that opens, open the Window Manager Tweaks. Click on the compositor tab. Here you can activate opacity for a whole range of options by ticking the box "Enable display compositing". The pop-up window setting controls the menu opacity.

Thanks for all the great input guys!

I'll be doing a lot of tweaking and experimenting in the next few days/weeks trying to find my feet in linux. But really #! seems like a great place to start.

The only other issue I have at the moment is launching my SMS application from Wbar. Does anybody know of a way I can launch a .sh file with Wbar?

Thanks again for all of your help...

Here's a question though:

Will xcompmgr-dana conflict with transset-df? Or will the two happily coexist?

I did notice that xcompmgr-dana likes to draw a dropshadow around conky when compositing is enabled.
This is not an issue for all of the darktheme lovers (98% ).
Aside from own_window no in conky config, which is a torrent of X craziness, is there a way to get conky ignored?

EXEC='xcompmgr -cCfF -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55 -D2 -m.86' #more effects, quicker fade and transparent menus

I sorta figured it out through experimentation...
The -o.55 entry controls the intensity of the dropshadow. I lowered this to o.0, and no more dropshadow. 
The -D2 entry controls fadespeed. Higher number=slower fade. Above 7 is kinda annoying.
Still figuring out the others:)

The little c is for shadow and the big C is for no shadows on docks/panels, all i was saying is that for me it makes a difference which way aroud they go. I have only tried it on the default conkyrc because conky is not something I wish to waste my time on It might just be a matter of playing around.

xcompmgr-dana has more going for it than just menu hacks, it has better fades and several bug fixes and memory leak fixes over normal xcompmgr.