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Thrillhouse

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From: Arlington, VA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 175

Make Cairo Clock background same color as desktop

I've installed Cairo Clock and like the radium theme but the problem is the area around the clock (the square that holds the clock object) is black and it doesn't look so good against my blue/white desktop background.  Is there any way I can change that to make it match the color of the wallpaper?  Some kind of setting, translucency maybe?  I can't find anything by right-clicking and adjusting the properties.  Is there anything I can add to .cairo-clockrc?

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chaosgeisterchen

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From: Kefermarkt, Upper Austria

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 550

Re: Make Cairo Clock background same color as desktop

Which desktop do you use? GNOME, KDE, XFCE, .. ?

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celestary
Intel Core2Duo E6300 @ 1.86 GHz
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Thrillhouse

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From: Arlington, VA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 175

Re: Make Cairo Clock background same color as desktop

Gnome.  Sorry, forgot to mention that.

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jean-paul

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-03-26

Posts: 61

Re: Make Cairo Clock background same color as desktop

Hi,

I think you need a compositeable WM like compiz, beryl or xfwm4 (Xfce4)

Jean-Paul

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Thrillhouse

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From: Arlington, VA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 175

Re: Make Cairo Clock background same color as desktop

Ugghhhh, no.  That sucks.  I've never had good luck getting Beryl up on any distro.  My graphics card (ATI Radeon 9200) is terribly supported.  Oh well, maybe I'll try again some day.

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chaosgeisterchen

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From: Kefermarkt, Upper Austria

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 550

Re: Make Cairo Clock background same color as desktop

The r300 drivers should perform flawlessly on running Beryl on your machine.

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celestary
Intel Core2Duo E6300 @ 1.86 GHz
kernel26
KDEmod current repository

Thrillhouse

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From: Arlington, VA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 175

Re: Make Cairo Clock background same color as desktop

OK, I'll give that a show when I get some time.

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chaosgeisterchen

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From: Kefermarkt, Upper Austria

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 550

Re: Make Cairo Clock background same color as desktop

It's not too hard. You just have to change the driver in the device section from fglrx (I assume you use it) to ati in your /etc/xorg.conf.

I have seen notebooks performing just fine with equipment equal to yours. Native AIGLX runs quite smooth.

Last edited by chaosgeisterchen (2007-06-18 06:52:07)

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celestary
Intel Core2Duo E6300 @ 1.86 GHz
kernel26
KDEmod current repository

Oin

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Registered: 2005-09-02

Posts: 63

Re: Make Cairo Clock background same color as desktop

I've had the same problem with cairo-clock and here's how i fixed it.

1. I already had hardware acceleration enabled (see ArchWiki for your ATI.
2. pacman -S xcompmgr
3. added this:

Section "Extensions"
                Option "Composite" "Enable"
        EndSection

to my /etc/X11/XF86Config
4. started xcompmgr
5. started cairo-clock

good luck!

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Thrillhouse

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From: Arlington, VA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 175

Re: Make Cairo Clock background same color as desktop

Thanks, Oin.  That worked like a charm.

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