Re: FVWM: Translucency

From: Dalibor Straka <dast_at_panelnet.cz>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:45:37 +0200

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 07:44:22PM +0200, Julian Leyh wrote:
> (once again sorry.. should be sent to the list..)
>
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:10:04 -0600
> Harshwardhan Nagaonkar <harsh_at_ee.byu.edu> wrote:
>
> > These are the relevant lines in my .fvwm2rc file. What other changes
> > did you have to do to get a translucent pager (you can see
> > windows/text that are overlapped by the pager)?
>
> real transparency (aka translucency) depends on your X server.
> if you use XFree86 or X.org, that won't be possible.
>
> The Xserver from freedesktop.org supports real transparency, some other
> out there may too.
>
> The translucency patch only works for the menus.. and it's not really
> real transparency, only simulated real transparency ;)
> you'll notice that the translucent parts won't update if the content of
> the underlying window changes.
>

Thank you very much, this saves much my work ;). My idea was clocks and
pager in the right down corner, always on top and translucent.

I will probably move both without trans*ency to the right top corner
which hardly ever contains anything important ;-).
(exactly a bit far from right because of those three window's buttons),

> btw. i asked something similar few days ago..
> i solved it using autohide on a FvwmButtons with StaysOnTop, which
> swallowed FvwmPager(see the faq, last point).
> In fact, i'm using two FvwmPager, one in the autohiding FvwmButtons and
> one with StaysOnBottom directly where the unhidden FvwmButtons appears.
> This way i see the pager when it is not covered and if it is covered, i
> can move the mouse to where it should be and i'll see it.
>

Nice people here,
-- Dalibor Straka
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