Transparent window borders in mate?

CubeGod · 2014-06-21 01:06:03

My hdd died and I'm finally back up, now I might as well give mate another shot since I just reinstalled, it's more or less tolerable with gnome-menu installed but the default compositor sucks.

After some googling I found a few posts relating to linux mint but glossing over them I failed to find any relevant information, is there any way to replace the default compositor? (that isn't a pain to do, for a definition of that look at my attempts of getting compiz running standalone)
If this is not possible (again in a more or less straightforward manner) then I'm open to suggestions for other environments that look good, are lightweight (XFCE is a candidate although I never quite managed to get it looking good, I almost managed to get there but not quite), GTK based (I use a lot of GTK software and next to no QT software) and that has a proper compositor or which can have a proper compositor enabled.

As for compositors I'm considering compton but I'm not all too familiar with the various ones available and if anyone can suggest a better one that's fine with me.

clfarron4 · 2014-06-21 12:57:26

Well, there's the mate-compiz packages (in the AUR), which have repository somewhere...

EDIT: Found it -

[compiz-mate]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server	= http://pkgbuild.com/~flexiondotorg/compiz-mate/$arch

Couple that with fusion-icon on autostart and emerald, and you've got something which is pretty good if you ask me.

Last edited by clfarron4 (2014-06-21 12:58:18)

CubeGod · 2014-06-22 01:03:40

Oh thank you
Is emerald required though? (well, not too bad if it is, I'll just have to find some themes, or if none I like can be found make some)

clfarron4 · 2014-06-22 12:37:59

No, emerald isn't required. It's just my personal preference to use emerald.

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#1 2014-06-21 01:06:03

Transparent window borders in mate?

#2 2014-06-21 12:57:26

Re: Transparent window borders in mate?

#3 2014-06-22 01:03:40

Re: Transparent window borders in mate?

#4 2014-06-22 12:37:59

Re: Transparent window borders in mate?

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