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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/

Re: Tranparencies in Metacity!

Submitted by tigrux on Mon, 2004-09-27 09:46.

Put lines lik these in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Extensions"

Option "Composite"

Option "RENDER"

EndSection

Caution!! You must have a very good card (NVidia card is strongly recommended).

Remember activate fast render in the nvidia modules like below:

Section "Device"

#Option "Nologo"

Identifier "device1"

VendorName "NVidia"

BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"

Driver "nvidia"

Option "DPMS"

Option "NvAGP" "1"

Option "MetaModes" "800x600,1280x800;1024x768,1280x800;800x600,800x600"

Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = aspect-scaled"

Option "RenderAccel"

Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"

Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "31.5 - 130.0"

Option "TwinView"

Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "59 - 340"