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Tranparencies in Metacity!

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

  1. Windows turn transparent when dragged.
  2. Window menu has an entry to toggle transparent/opaque.
  3. 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/

Finally

Submitted by WareKala on Mon, 2004-09-27 09:21.

Now this is something that I've been waiting for! Finally some eye-candy for Linux-users, too =) Now the next thing to add would be shadows and all such neat stuff, AND the rest of the Gnome desktop to also support this functionality. F.ex. the panels need some polishing. And heck, gnome-terminal should also naturally use this, right now it fakes transparency and it's both slow and doesn't really do the trick..Yeah, I know I shouldn't be complaining, and I would add these trick myself if only I knew how.

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