On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:00:32PM +0200, Dawid Kuroczko wrote:
> Hello. :-)
>
> I did manage to make pseudo-transparent menus, but now I'd like
> to make something more "real". What I'd like to do is to have
> something like there is in KDE.
>
> It should work like this:
> 1. user clicks thus calling a Menu.
> 2. current screen dump is taken (with all the windows, but
> without a menu just as yet).
> 3. this screen dump is made available to Menu as
> root background pixmap.
> 4. Menu is displayed with tinted real background.
>
> This way it's pretty easy to make an illusion of real
> transparency (and looks "l33t", as some may say).
>
> My question is, how to do it to, and make it good. I came up
> with a function which would call xwd, convert and fvwm-root
> and then call Menu. Which is slow (convert) and does set
> background instead of just making it "virtually" available
> to Menu...
>
>
Humm, ... in fact some code in fvwm was already there for this.
Apply the attached patch to the current cvs (really current)
or to the next snapshot and use the following config:
Colorset 5 Transparent, Tint black 50
MenuStyle * MenuColorset 5, PopupOffset 0 100, AnimationOff
and you get what you want :o)
However, I do not think that such patch will be applied before
fvwm-2.6.
Regards, Olivier
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Received on Wed Aug 27 2003 - 08:49:56 BST