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Thoht

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-02-02

Posts: 75

Different kind of transparency in GNOME and XFCE

Hey folks!

I was using GNOME in Ubuntu, but after switching to Arch I've been messing around with XFCE, Openbox and so on. One thing I don't understand is how transparency works in GNOME (Metacity?) in comparison to XFCE and similar WM/DEs. In GNOME I can see open windows behind the terminal when transparency is enabled. In XFCE, all I see is the desktop wallpaper.

Is it possible to obtain "true" transparency such as the one in GNOME in XFCE?

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KimTjik

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-08-22

Posts: 715

Re: Different kind of transparency in GNOME and XFCE

My xorg.conf:

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

Then there's something called "Window tuning" (or something similar) in preferences. One of it's tabs let you adjust the transparency settings.

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: Different kind of transparency in GNOME and XFCE

XFCE has it's own builtin composite manager.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfc … n_Xfce_4.4

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