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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/

Really odd article

Submitted by newren on Mon, 2004-09-27 10:29.

I follow Metacity development pretty closely, and have recently been contributing lots of patches. This is the first time I have seen Sandino contribute to Metacity. There's nothing wrong with this, of course--it's wonderful to have more excited contributors. But I find it really strange that this is a gnomedesktop article. Sandino first reported his patch at

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152991 . Havoc pointed out quite a few things as for guidelines to fix the patch, but he seemed to not like the general direction of the patch. The patch definitely has not been accepted or committed to CVS, and I had the feeling that Havoc wouldn't want it. Of course, I know nothing about the compositor section of the Metacity code, and perhaps there were some emails outside bugzilla that went on that I'm unaware of. But it just strikes me as odd. Sandino: could you clear this up for me? I'm a little confused. Thanks.

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