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Basic Desktop Effects

Hi there I've noticed there are some basic Desktop effects in SliTaz 3.0 Cooking. Like shadows and fading which I love and also opacity for windows. How can I make it so these effects are default? Already set when I login? Also to make windows transparent I have to choose 'set opacity (click)' then click a window, I have to repeat this for every window. Is there anyway I can do that will make everything transparent at once?

Trixar_za

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Basic Desktop Effects

Open a terminal and type:

leafpad $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh and uncomment (remove the # before) xcompmgr -c -r 10 &

Guest

Guest

Re: Basic Desktop Effects

I've already took this step but it still leaves me having to click on a window at startup and then repeating the steps to make each and every window transparent. I was looking for a way to make all the windows I open permananetly transparent.

Thanks so far!

Trixar_za

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Basic Desktop Effects

From a quick look, there isn't really a command that does it automatically, but you could look through obconf to see if openbox comes with an option to render windows with an set opacity level.

Guest

Guest

Re: Basic Desktop Effects

Marking this as resolved as it doesn't look like there is an easy way to do it. I'll have a look through obconf sometime it's not a deal breaker so not too fussed.

Raphael

Member

Registered: 2011-06-12

Posts: 109

Re: Basic Desktop Effects

hi...do U want something like that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHYw8lXTe1Q

windows non active tranparent all time?

if Yes exist this script

but U need python

Raphael

Member

Registered: 2011-06-12

Posts: 109

Re: Basic Desktop Effects

i see in attachement python script no fonction so...

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#!/usr/bin/python

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

##

#   script that uses transset-df to allow opacity to follow the focused window.

#   The focused window get opacity 1.0 while all others have opacity set by 'OPACITY'

#

#   by ADcomp <david.madbox@gmail.com>  [ http://www.ad-comp.be/ ]

#

#   This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License

#   For more info see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

##

import os

## from python-gtk2

import gtk

## from python-gnome2-desktop

import wnck

## transset -i <xid> <opacity>

CMD = 'transset-df -i'

## opacity when not active

OPACITY = 0.75

class Transset():

    def __init__(self):

        self.screen = wnck.screen_get_default()

        self.screen.force_update()

        self.update()

        self.screen.connect("active_window_changed", self.active_window_changed)

    def update(self):

        win_list = self.screen.get_windows()

        active_ws = self.screen.get_active_workspace()

        active_win = self.screen.get_active_window()

        for window in win_list:

            ## don't check window if skip tasklist

            if not window.is_skip_tasklist():

                ## only window open on active workspace

                if window.get_workspace() == active_ws:

                    if window == active_win:

                        ## remove transparency

                        cmd = "%s %s 1" % ( CMD, window.get_xid() )

                    else:

                        ## set transparency

                        cmd = "%s %s %s" % ( CMD, window.get_xid(), OPACITY )

                    os.system(cmd)

    def active_window_changed(self, screen, window):

        self.update()

    def doquit(self, widget=None, data=None):

        gtk.main_quit()

    def run(self):

        gtk.main()

transset = Transset()

transset.run()

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Trixar_za

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Basic Desktop Effects

The code says it all. It needs python-gtk and python-gnome2 to work. The last package also means it needs GNOME installed and as your default enviroment to work, meaning this script won't work well for SliTaz or OpenBox.