Re: FVWM: transparency/alphablending in 2.5.4

From: Olivier Chapuis <olivier.chapuis_at_free.fr>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 05:28:38 +0100

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:59:31AM +0100, Klaus Umbach wrote:
> Hello,
> How can I configure the transparency in 2.5.4, I cannot find anything in
> the man page. I'm working on an OS-X Aqua theme, so it would be cool if I
> could build in some tranclucent titlebars and menus or at least the round
> corners.
>

There is no translucent colorset in fvwm because X does not allow
it (it will be possible to implement translucent menu but this is
not implemented and I do not think it will be in a near future).

However, you have the Transparent Colorset option:

Colorset 5 fg white, fgsh black, bg grey50, Transparent

To get transparent menus:

   MenuStyle * MenuColorset 5, Font "shadow=1 all:a font"

You can try to tint:

Colorset 5 tint black 15

but this is slow. To get fast tinting you should use

Colorset 5 RootTransparent buffer

in the place of Transparent. But you should use an Esetroot
compatible program to set your bg (fvwm-root --retain-pixmap).

The transparent colorset is not usable with title bar (and will be
never), but in a near future you will be able.to use RootTransparent.

The RootTransparent colorset is not documented in 2.5.4 because
it was not fully implemented. It is in the current cvs.

Regards, Olivier
 
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Received on Thu Nov 21 2002 - 22:55:32 GMT

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