[SOLVED] Transparent windows?

[Yuri sss]

Re: Transparent windows?

@yuri: thanks
there are many themes but none matches oxygen-transparent.
i wanted to install svn as u suggested but there are several options..

svn-autoreleasedeb svn-buildpackage svncviewer svn-devscripts svn-load svnmailer svn-workbench

which one do i install to install this theme?

The package is named subversion.

[Yuri sss]

Re: Transparent windows?

I tried to run the script myself and found out the following:

- you need to run the script with perl oxygen-setup.pl (running it with ./oxygen-setup.pl, as it says in the setup script, only gives an error message).
- you need to have the cmake package installed

After installing the cmake package, I still got errors:

-- The CXX compiler identification is unknown
CMake Error: your CXX compiler: "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not found. Please set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or name.
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:98 (MESSAGE):
ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found

How (and where) do I set that cmake variable to a valid compiler path?
What do I do about that "File not found" message?

[Yuri sss]

Re: Transparent windows?

Found a different solution now. I looked for oxygen-transparent on Launchpad and found it here:
https://launchpad.net/~nuovodna/+archive/nuovodna-stuff

However, you can't install it using Synaptic - it will refuse overwriting of the oxygen files, because they're part of the kde-windows-manager package.

You have to download the package:
https://launchpad.net/~nuovodna/+arc...0722_amd64.deb

Extract the .deb file, then the data.tar.lzma file inside of it. You'll get a folder named usr. Now overwrite the original files with the files therein, according to the folder structure.
After that, reboot. You can then access the new Oxygen settings with the ability to make the background transparent. Works fine here. Finally apps run as root, which are stuck with Oxygen, don't look quite as boring anymore

[ubuntuku]

Re: Transparent windows?

I tried to run the script myself and found out the following:

- you need to run the script with perl oxygen-setup.pl (running it with ./oxygen-setup.pl, as it says in the setup script, only gives an error message).
- you need to have the cmake package installed

After installing the cmake package, I still got errors:

-- The CXX compiler identification is unknown
CMake Error: your CXX compiler: "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not found. Please set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or name.
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:98 (MESSAGE):
ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found

How (and where) do I set that cmake variable to a valid compiler path?
What do I do about that "File not found" message?

apt-file find FindKDE4Internal.cmake

here's the output:

ubuntuku@satellite:~$ apt-file find FindKDE4Internal.cmake
kdelibs5-dev: /usr/share/kde4/apps/cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake

Try install kdelibs5-dev then run the setup script again.

[kapil]

Re: Transparent windows?

i went pass through the CXX thing.. but got error at some other place:

CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
X11_Xrender_LIB (ADVANCED)
linked by target "kwin3_oxygen" in directory /home/kapil/Documents/src/decoration

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
system cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release /home/kapil/Documents/src>&1 failed: 256

then i tried to install from the .deb file. but got this error.

Unpacking kde-style-oxygen-transparent (from .../kde-style-oxygen-transparent_4.5pre+svn20100722_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /home/kapil/Documents/kde-style-oxygen-transparent_4.5pre+svn20100722_amd64.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/liboxygenstyle.so.4.5.0', which is also in package kde-window-manager 4:4.5.0b-0ubuntu1~lucid1~ppa2
lzma: Decoder error
dpkg-deb: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/home/kapil/Documents/kde-style-oxygen-transparent_4.5pre+svn20100722_amd64.deb

anyone got similar error?

[Yuri sss]

Re: Transparent windows?

then i tried to install from the .deb file. but got this error.

dpkg: error processing /home/kapil/Documents/kde-style-oxygen-transparent_4.5pre+svn20100722_amd64.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/liboxygenstyle.so.4.5.0', which is also in package kde-window-manager 4:4.5.0b-0ubuntu1~lucid1~ppa2

anyone got similar error?

Read what I wrote above - I already said that you can't install the package from Synaptic because it can't overwrite things.
You have to download the package manually, unpack it and overwrite the files yourself, as I wrote above.

[kapil]

Re: Transparent windows?

@yuri: i tried to execute .deb file instead of extracting it.
now read reply again.
extracted .deb opened data.tar.lzma and tried to replace files one by one and system went unstable.
will try out something again and then reinstall system just in case it did not work

[Yuri sss]

Re: Transparent windows?

@yuri: i tried to execute .deb file instead of extracting it.
now read reply again.
extracted .deb opened data.tar.lzma and tried to replace files one by one and system went unstable.
will try out something again and then reinstall system just in case it did not work

You only need to reinstall the package kde-window-manager to have the original Oxygen files put back in place.

[kapil]

Re: Transparent windows?

@yuri: i wish i had read ur reply before reinstalling kubuntu
anyways..here is how i got oxygen transparent theme.. and let me tell u.. it is B E A U T I F U L!!!

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake kdelibs5-dev kdebase-workspace-dev libxrender-dev libx11-dev subversion

cd Downloads && mkdir oxygen-transparent && cd oxygen-transparent && wget [url]http://kde-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/127752-oxygen-setup.pl[/url]

sudo chmod u+x 127752-oxygen-setup.pl && ./127752-oxygen-setup.pl

cd build && sudo make install

courtesy: http://tuxmiamigo.budhid.com/2010/07...ta-de-kde-4-6/

[ElWray]

Re: [SOLVED] Transparent windows?

Thanks for posting that link, kapil.
Also, I'd like to mention the fact that QtCurve made my system quite unstable (does that happen to anyone else?) and I eventually had to reinstall the OS.

Anyways, the oxygen transparent theme is indeed beautiful.

Looks best on dark backgrounds (black + blue here) with the Produkt color scheme IMO; view background changed to a really pale shade of grey and view text set to black.

Here are 2 links to a couple of screenshots I took after getting it all working properly:

http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/.../snapshot2.png
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/.../snapshot1.png

Thanks again,
ElWray