Re: FVWM: Yes! I did it! Almost everything is transparent!

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:41:13 +0000

On 16 Dec 2002 16:48:33 +0000, Richard Curnow wrote:
>
> > screenshot: http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ugk8/screenshot.png
>
> Which version of fvwm do you have this working on?
>
> I've looked at your config files and tried to adapt bits of them to my
> setup. I'm trying both 2.5.4 and 2.5.5.
>
> After a struggle I finally managed to get transparent menus like this:
>
> Colorset 0 fg white, bg black, Shape, Plain
> Colorset 0 Transparent
> #Colorset 0 RootTransparent
> Colorset 0 tint black 30
> MenuStyle * MenuColorset 0

You don't really need to split a colorset definition to 3 lines,
see enother message in this thread that explains speed problems.

> ... but if I uncomment the 3rd Colorset line, I just get white text on
> black menus with no transparency.

To use RootTransparent use should run "fvwm-root -r bg-image.png|xpm"
first. Or Esetroot.

> I can't get transparent title bars or borders at all though. With title
> bars I'm trying to do
>
> Colorset 1 fg white, bg black, Shape, Plain
> Colorset 1 Transparent
> Colorset 1 tint #4060a0 30
> TitleStyle Inactive Colorset 1
>
> but this has no effect and I just get a syntax error reported on the
> console:
> unknown style Colorset : Colorset 1

You need 2.5.5 for this.

Only RootTransparent works in titles, not Transparent.

> Any clues? The syntax for this stuff doesn't seem to be documented much
> yet.

It is currently fully documented in the FvwmTheme man page that is
referred in the COLORSETS section of the fvwm man page, is not it?

Regards,
Mikhael.
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