Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.com>]

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 01:12, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> 
wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)':
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 07:40 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 06:34, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 00:35, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > turn on transparency in controll center
> > >
> > > I found "translucency" - is that it?
> >
> > Yes that's it, and yes you do have to change some settings in
> > xorg.conf if you haven't done so already.
>
> why? I have panel transparency? already, so why do I need to do
> something special for konsole transparency?

Kicker and Konsole both support a limited form of transparency.  You'll set 
this limited form up through kicker/koncole specific configurations.

In konsole you'll want to modify the scheme in use to have a transparent 
(or partially transparent) background (and maybe background text color).

The WM-wide transparency is handled with the X composite extension (must 
modify xorg.conf) and kompmgr (which is automagically started with your 
KDE session, if KDE detects the composite extension is loaded).  The 
window-bahavior transparency and shadows use kompmgr.

The limited transparency is not, for what i understand, hw accelerated and 
shows the desktop background never other windows.  The kompmgr 
transparency can be hw accelerated and will also show other windows, not 
just teh desktop background.

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