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capnmoney

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[Solved]Translucent Conky through transset?

So I'd like to set up conky to have a translucent background, like in this screenshot

http://img168.imageshack.us/my.php?imag … setwj2.jpg

My solution thus far was starting transset through autostart.sh and then clicking on conky to make it transparent.  There has to be a better way to do this, but I've not come across a setting in conky that lets me do it.  I'm also running a script to change my background, so editing all the walls I have isn't an easy solution.  Is there a way to get transset to automatically set a window's transparency or does anyone have a better solution?

Thanks

Last edited by capnmoney (2008-12-08 00:43:32)

sand_man

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Re: [Solved]Translucent Conky through transset?

I'm sure you can use transset to set transparency by WM_CLASS name.
Does transset have a man page?

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capnmoney

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Re: [Solved]Translucent Conky through transset?

It doesn't.  The only place I could see any real info was the Arch wiki under the xcompmgr entry.

moljac024

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Re: [Solved]Translucent Conky through transset?

transset-df is what you're looking for, it's in the repos.
It can set by wm_name

pacman -Sy transset-df

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capnmoney

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Re: [Solved]Translucent Conky through transset?

Awesome, thanks everybody.

Without any man page, it took a while to figure out what arguments transset-df needs, so here it is if anyone needs it:

transset-df -n Conky .6

moljac024

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Re: [Solved]Translucent Conky through transset?

Awesome, thanks everybody.

Without any man page, it took a while to figure out what arguments transset-df needs, so here it is if anyone needs it:

transset-df -n Conky .6

You realize that every app in existence prints out usage info if you start it with -h, --help or -help ?

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capnmoney

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Re: [Solved]Translucent Conky through transset?

As you have deduced I'm not the most experienced user.  I guessed at it three or four times before using -h.  I find myself at a stage where the right command always seems to be on the tip of my tongue, and then after I figure it out, it was in front of my face the whole time.  A couple more weeks with Arch and I might actually know what I'm doing:)

dunc

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Re: [Solved]Translucent Conky through transset?

You realize that every app in existence prints out usage info if you start it with -h, --help or -help ?

Completely OT, but that's another thing I miss about AmigaOS: "foo ?" printed out the arguments "foo" expected, and what type (string, integer, switch...) they should be, even if the coder hadn't bothered to include a help option. In *nix, "-h" or "--help" has to be explicitly coded, and some things don't have it. More than three years on, I still find myself typing things like "transset-df ?" by mistake.

I'll shut up now. I'm just hacked off because I could have answered the OP's question, but you lot got in before me.

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