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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/

Re: I followed Havoc's guides

Submitted by newren on Mon, 2004-09-27 15:13.

Ah, so you're just announcing it so others can play around with it? That's makes more sense now. The article seemed to be implying it was a new feature that was now part of Metacity, so I was a little confused (especially since Metacity hasn't branched and thus isn't allowed to have new features put in yet). Thanks for clearing it up.

Also, thanks for hacking on the compositing stuff. I haven't had time to look at any of that stuff, but I think it'll be really cool when it's all up and working and considered stable. Hopefully your announcement encourages more people to get involved too. :-)

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