<Solved> PERMANENT transparency for X

Maliwik · Last edited by Maliwik on Sat May 24, 2008 4:56 am; edited 1 time in total

I've been searching all over on how to do this for about 4 hours now (yeah I have nothing better to do) and I can't find _anything_ that allows me to do this. I want to make it so _all_ of my windows are 25% transparent upon starting up OpenBox. I've tried transset but that only works temporarily. I've also tried transd, but haven't had any luck getting that to work.

Is there any simple, lightweight tool that changes all the windows on startup that I don't have to go about installing millions of tedious dependencies which I would have no use for otherwise?
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Sadako · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 3:43 am Post subject:

I know it's not really what you're looking for, but e16 can do what you want, and AFAIK it's still the only non-DE window manager with a composite manager.

You can set the default transparency for focused and unfocused windows (very handy for having the focused and only the focused window 100% opaque), and then you can configure others differently if required, and e16 will remember the settings, all without any external tools.

If you do decide to try it, be sure to emerge the ~arch version.
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Maliwik · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 4:56 am Post subject:

Thanks, I'm trying it out and I actually like it. Going to keep it on my laptop and use OpenBox on my other computer. =)

--Mike
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