From kde Sat Feb 24 01:51:55 2001 From: Dave Leigh Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 01:51:55 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: Transparent Windows X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=98297938723912 On Friday 23 February 2001 02:17, David Heremans wrote: > On Thursday 22 February 2001 19:03, Praedor Tempus wrote: > > If you do have it working in transparent mode, how did you do it? > > It is the same reason why stuuf like xearth,sfishtank etc do notr work. > KDE's background is in effect a giant borderless window behind all the > other windows. The real X-rootwindow/background is behind this > KDE-window-background. > aterm tries to read the real X window which is probably blank since if you > use KDE you will never see it. (because covered by the giant borderless KDE > window used as background) BTW, as inconvenient as it is on the local console, I like this new desktop. It means that when I run KDE remotely from a Windows box I get the whole desktop in a window instead of having bits scattered around among the Windows stuff. You could probably do this another way, but I was having problems prior to 2.0. > But Konsole has a transparent option. (options->schema->transparent > konsole) To answer Paedor's question about how it's done, am I correct in thinking that Konsole's transparent scheme is not /actually/ transparent, but that it takes a snapshot of the desktop under the window and displays it as a background image in the term window. That's why the windows under the konsole aren't shown, but the desktop under /them/ is. -- We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. -- La Rochefoucauld -- Send posts to: kde@lists.netcentral.net Send all commands to: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" PLEASE READ THE ARCHIVED MESSAGES AT http://lists.kde.org/ BEFORE POSTING ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral