How do I go about making window backgrounds transparent? Ive been playing around with new themes but cant get anything to be transparent...
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Do you want the whole window to be transparent? That's what vinny's solution provides.
Or only the background areas, with controls/widgets still opaque? For this you need something like oxygen-transparent or QtCurve. See for example [SOLVED] Transparent windows? - but there may be more up-to-date guidance somewhere.I'd rather be locked out than locked in.
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Originally posted by whatthefunk View PostJust need to play around with it some to get it right.sigpic "Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." -- Douglas Adams
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Thanks muchly to folks who contributed to this thread.
One of the things that I, particularly, liked about the compiz cube, when I was teaching online classes, was the I could raise a "student paper" off the cube and set it's transparency so that I could read the answer sheet below it, and then copy and paste the correct answer, or write a reply on another face of the cube in the intranet, or chat, or e-mail, as the class was set up.
I don't teach online anymore but, if I do, this will be very useful..
I wonder how many other folks would use this, and for what?
woodthanksagaintoallsmoke
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After a long while playing around, I figured it out. If anyone else has this problem and has a Nivida graphics card, try this:
-Go to System Settings > Desktop Effects > Advanced
-Change compositing type to OpenGL
-On the sam"e page, uncheck "Use OpenGL 2 Shaders"
-Apply settings and under the General tab, uncheck and re-check "Blur"
-Apply and enjoy!
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Originally posted by woodsmoke View PostOne of the things that I, particularly, liked about the compiz cube, when I was teaching online classes, was the I could raise a "student paper" off the cube and set it's transparency so that I could read the answer sheet below it, and then copy and paste the correct answer, or write a reply on another face of the cube in the intranet, or chat, or e-mail, as the class was set up.
I'm struggling to find where in System Settings (or elsewhere) this is assigned, though ...I'd rather be locked out than locked in.
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