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Tranparencies in Metacity!

Submitted by tigrux on Mon, 2004-09-27 07:02. Metacity Window Manager

XOrg 6.8 supports true transparencies now!
But I had missed support for transparencies in metacity, then I wrote a little and nice patch for metacity 2.8.5.

You can see a screenshot here

Click Read more to learn more about the new features....
Features:

Windows turn transparent when dragged.
Window menu has an entry to toggle transparent/opaque.
A keybinding to do the same, ALT+F3 in the current patch, and configurable using the gconf entry:
/apps/metacity/window_keybindings/transparent

Thanks to Federico Mena and Havoc Pennington for helping me.

Binaries for mandrake are available in

http://primates.ximian.com/~sandino/RPMS/i586/metacity-transparencies/

XOrg 6.8.1 for mandrake is available in:

http://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/svetljo/mandrake/probably_broken/RPMS/

Gnome 2.8 for mandrake is available in:

http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/Mandrake/gnome2.7/RPMS/

Okay, eye candy. What else? by Anonymous George

Re: Okay, eye candy. What else?

Submitted by chihowa on Thu, 2004-09-30 08:38.

I think that the GIMP window in the screenshot is a great example in itself. I hate working on large images only to always have the tool set perpetully in front of what I want to be able to see! Eventually, that may be a good default behavior for floating toolbars and such. Quick access to mostly graphical (little text) windows without obscuring the content of the main window below it.

Re: Okay, eye candy. What else? by Anonymous George

Tranparencies in Metacity don't seem to work too well! by WareKala

Re: Tranparencies in Metacity don't seem to work too well! by cevans

Mandrake rpms by Anonymous George

Want shadows instead. by Anonymous George

What shadows instead. by Anonymous George