[ dwm ] How to change the wallpaper and make windows transparent ?

SemiBz · 2010-03-03 22:26:25

How do I change the wallpaper and make windows transparent ( ~ 20% ) ?
Have been Googl'ing for a while now but still have no clue on how to achieve it

Runiq · 2010-03-03 22:30:59

hsetroot, xsetroot, feh, whatever floats your boat.

Window transparency: xcompmgr or cairo-compmgr.

zowki · 2010-03-04 09:24:05

Setting wallpaper:
1. Install feh
$ sudo pacman -S feh
2. Set wallpaper
$ feh --bg-scale foobar.jpg

Transparent windows:
1. Install compositioning stuff
$ pacman -S transset-df xcompmgr
2. Run xcompmgr (and add to your .xinitrc):
$ xcompmgr &
3. Chose transparency (this example is 50% transparency)
$ transset .50
4. Click the window you want to be transparent

SemiBz · 2010-03-04 10:32:21

Thank you! And how would I set terminals to be transparent by default ? xcompmgr can be started automatically but transset requires user input

Last edited by SemiBz (2010-03-04 10:32:48)

zowki · 2010-03-04 10:40:13

SemiBz wrote:

Thank you! And how would I set terminals to be transparent by default ? xcompmgr can be started automatically but transset requires user input

What terminal do you use? urxvt can set transparency in the Xdefaults file.

revenant · 2010-03-04 10:48:55

> What terminal do you use? urxvt can set transparency in the Xdefaults file.

Or, if you don't like fiddling with Xdefaults file, you can simply make urxvt transparent by executing it like "urxvt -tr -sh 20", where the number represents the transparency level. However, this is only pseudo transparency, but I like it better than resource-consuming compositing.

SemiBz · 2010-03-04 10:51:31

zowki wrote:

SemiBz wrote:
Thank you! And how would I set terminals to be transparent by default ? xcompmgr can be started automatically but transset requires user input
What terminal do you use? urxvt can set transparency in the Xdefaults file.

revenant wrote:

> What terminal do you use? urxvt can set transparency in the Xdefaults file.
Or, if you don't like fiddling with Xdefaults file, you can simply make urxvt transparent by executing it like "urxvt -tr -sh 20", where the number represents the transparency level. However, this is only pseudo transparency, but I like it better than resource-consuming compositing.

Will give it a try. I'm not against .Xdefaults - just haven't used it that much and know only the basics ( color schemes )

keegan · 2010-03-04 14:29:24

Here's my xdefaults for transparent white on black urxvt. It also underlines links and opens them in ff.

 
URxvt*termName: rxvt
URxvt.buffered:         true
URxvt.background:       black
URxvt.foreground:       white
URxvt.cursorColor:      green
URxvt.underlineColor:   red
URxvt.scrollBar:    False
URxvt.perl-ext:         default,matcher
URxvt.urlLauncher:      /usr/bin/firefox
URxvt.matcher.button:   1 
URxvt.transparent:    True
URxvt.shading:        50

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#1 2010-03-03 22:26:25

[ dwm ] How to change the wallpaper and make windows transparent ?

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