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veggie2u
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Location: Minneapolis/MN USA
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 Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 8:07 pm Post subject: transparent icons with idesk and fluxbox? |
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| I am wondering what I might be doing wrong. I am trying to use idesk, fluxbox, and the Gentoo Icon set. All my icons look square. There is a grey square around the round icons. You kinda lose the nice round effect that way. Am I missing something in my ideskrc file? |
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parapente
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Joined: 28 Jul 2003
Posts: 140
Location: Greece
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| To have transparency working good in fluxbox you have to use Esetroot, feh or chbg to load the background. If you have any of them installed, it is used when you run fbsetbg. |
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malloc
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Joined: 19 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 12:35 am Post subject: |
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You must set your background before you start idesk.
In your .xinitrc put...
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blah &
app2 &
Esetroot -s /path/to/background/image.png
idesk &
blah &
exec fluxbox
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Don't forget to add the Esetroot in your .fluxbox/init also |
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veggie2u
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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I think that I will need to try a new .xinitrc file that is simplified, like malloc has. The one that I am using is from the fluxbox site, and it does something weird with the pid of flux. The end result is that I can't seem to get flux started, then Esetroot to finish before idesk is started.
http://www.fluxbox.org/docbook/en/html/app-setup.html
| Quote: | # turn off screen blanking and turn on energy star features
xset s off
xset dpms 600 60 60
# add my optional fonts to the font path
xset +fp "$X_FONTPATH"
xset fp rehash
# export the current environment, in case it needs to be debugged
env > ~/.xenv
# window manager
fluxbox & wmpid=$!
bbrun &
wmCalClock &
wmxmms &
# HANG POINT - wait for window manager to exit
wait $wmpid
# restore the x fontpath
xset fp default
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I don't know why it does that with the pid, but if I put the Esetroot and the idesk apps in where they have the bbrun and wmxmms apps, I get the ugly icon look. |
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dj_choco
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 13 Oct 2002
Posts: 144
Location: North America
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 6:42 am Post subject: icon transparency issues with fluxbox and idesk |
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| malloc wrote: | You must set your background before you start idesk.
In your .xinitrc put...
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blah &
app2 &
Esetroot -s /path/to/background/image.png
idesk &
blah &
exec fluxbox
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Don't forget to add the Esetroot in your .fluxbox/init also |
malloc,
where in my .fluxbox/init does the Esetroot command go? Do I use the same syntax as in .xinitrc?
my current .xinitrc:
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Esetroot ~some_user/stuff/backgrounds/DT-slickidiot1.jpg &
idesk &
aumix -L &
xmms &
bbrun &
gkrellm2 -w &
exec fluxbox |
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dj_choco
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 13 Oct 2002
Posts: 144
Location: North America
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 9:28 am Post subject: transparent icons! w00t! |
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Not sure exactly what happened.
I edited the following line in my .fluxbox/init:
| Code: | session.screen0.rootCommand: /usr/bin/Esetroot ~some_user/stuff/backgrounds/DT-slickidiot.jpg
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and I restarted X and i have sweet transparent-glow-when-u-hover icons! 
Thank you all!  |
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malloc
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Joined: 19 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 10:47 am Post subject: |
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Sorry for not answering sooner but i've been kinda busy.
Well seems like you found it out for yourself.
Well done 
Now go on and enjoy your new trans iconset |
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dj_choco
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 6:56 pm Post subject: Transparent icons with idesk and fluxbox |
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Yes, sorta....
I seem to have to restart X to actually get the transparency... When I initally start X, the icons have a black border (the "real" background?) around them.
I am going to check some general system stuff, like verifying that my user account is grabbing environment variables and sourcing /etc/profile.
Not sure where else to look. I am using the vesaFB (?).
Thanks again. |
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dj_choco
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 13 Oct 2002
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Location: North America
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 6:06 am Post subject: Update transparent icons and fluxbox |
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After some testing, I currently get the transparency only if I start idesk /after/ fluxbox is started.
More testing to follow! |
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[herb]
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 6:10 am Post subject: |
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I really hope the X team figures out true transparency soon...
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