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xcompmgr needs to be installed and running before you run transset,
however if you use gnome you'll have problems with window sizes
becoming full screen and overwriting taskbars. I haven't been able to
figure that one out yet, but it works fine in kde.

try:

xcompmgr -c &
then run your transset command


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:16:16 -0400, Andy Herrman <aherrman@gmail.com> wrote:
> With the release of Xorg 6.8.0, true transparency was implemented. At
> least that's my understanding. There is also an app (in portage)
> called transset, which I thought was supposed to set the transparency
> of windows in X. However, I haven't been able to get it to work.
>
> How does one take advantage of the transparency in the new release of
> Xorg? I'd love to be able to have a truly transparent Aterm, but I
> can't figure out how. Anyone know how to do this?
>
> Also, what's thie xcompmgr I keep hearing about? Is it related at all?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Andy
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:29:42 -0400, fs2k155 <fs2k155@gmail.com> wrote:
> xcompmgr needs to be installed and running before you run transset,
> however if you use gnome you'll have problems with window sizes
> becoming full screen and overwriting taskbars. I haven't been able to
> figure that one out yet, but it works fine in kde.
>
> try:
>
> xcompmgr -c &
> then run your transset command
>

I emerge xcompmgr and tried running it, but got the following error:
"No Composite Extension"

I'm guessing I have to turn something on in my xorg.conf. What might it be?
Thanks!

-Andy

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I'm also interested in this. From what I've found, you have to add:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
to your Xorg config.

Alex S.


Andy Herrman wrote:

>With the release of Xorg 6.8.0, true transparency was implemented. At
>least that's my understanding. There is also an app (in portage)
>called transset, which I thought was supposed to set the transparency
>of windows in X. However, I haven't been able to get it to work.
>
>How does one take advantage of the transparency in the new release of
>Xorg? I'd love to be able to have a truly transparent Aterm, but I
>can't figure out how. Anyone know how to do this?
>
>Also, what's thie xcompmgr I keep hearing about? Is it related at all?
>
>Thanks!
>
> -Andy
>
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Hi Andy.

There are lots of howtos out there, and I wont start another one. Take a
look at http://www.gentoo-wiki.com and http://forums.gentoo.org. Don't
remember where, but on one of these had a pretty straight howto on
transparency in the new release.

HTH, David


Andy Herrman wrote:
> With the release of Xorg 6.8.0, true transparency was implemented. At
> least that's my understanding. There is also an app (in portage)
> called transset, which I thought was supposed to set the transparency
> of windows in X. However, I haven't been able to get it to work.
>
> How does one take advantage of the transparency in the new release of
> Xorg? I'd love to be able to have a truly transparent Aterm, but I
> can't figure out how. Anyone know how to do this?
>
> Also, what's thie xcompmgr I keep hearing about? Is it related at all?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Andy



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Follow the recommendations above, but early adapters are reporting
that the code is not ready for prime time - transparency can eat your
cpu!

My $.02, unless you are a "gotta have the latest" type, be patient and
wait for a version that works.

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Well got it working, but...
so...bloody....slow...
WIth xcompmgr running everything starts going really slow. I did
everything in the howtoo, but it still went slow. And I have a P4 2.2
laptop w/ a Geforce 4. Is it just really inefficient right now, or
did I miss something?

Also, what are the different options for xcompmgr? I couldn't find a man page.

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If you have a nvidia card, you can set the RenderAccel option to
"true" in your Driver section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf. That'll speed
things up a little bit, especially when drawing shadows (using the -c
option)


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:58:35 +0000, Andrew Derby <andrew@thederbys.co.uk> wrote:
> As I understand it, xcompmgr is required to manage the image buffer. Just run
> xcompmgr in a terminal window. There are also various switches to turn on
> only partial functionality - e.g. xcompmgr -a just does the buffering to
> reduce the flicker when you move windows but doesn't handle transparency etc.
> (this is in case running the full xcompgr slows your machine down too much,
> as it does in my case). Once you have that running you should be able to use
> transset to make your windows translucent. You also need to have turned on
> the composite & render extensions in your xorg.conf -
>
> Section "Extensions"
> Option "Composite" "Enable"
> Option "RENDER" "Enable"
> EndSection
>
> Andrew.
>
>
>
> On Monday 13 September 2004 13:16, Andy Herrman wrote:
> > With the release of Xorg 6.8.0, true transparency was implemented. At
> > least that's my understanding. There is also an app (in portage)
> > called transset, which I thought was supposed to set the transparency
> > of windows in X. However, I haven't been able to get it to work.
> >
> > How does one take advantage of the transparency in the new release of
> > Xorg? I'd love to be able to have a truly transparent Aterm, but I
> > can't figure out how. Anyone know how to do this?
> >
> > Also, what's thie xcompmgr I keep hearing about? Is it related at all?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Andy
> >
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As I understand it, xcompmgr is required to manage the image buffer. Just run
xcompmgr in a terminal window. There are also various switches to turn on
only partial functionality - e.g. xcompmgr -a just does the buffering to
reduce the flicker when you move windows but doesn't handle transparency etc.
(this is in case running the full xcompgr slows your machine down too much,
as it does in my case). Once you have that running you should be able to use
transset to make your windows translucent. You also need to have turned on
the composite & render extensions in your xorg.conf -

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
Option "RENDER" "Enable"
EndSection

Andrew.

On Monday 13 September 2004 13:16, Andy Herrman wrote:
> With the release of Xorg 6.8.0, true transparency was implemented. At
> least that's my understanding. There is also an app (in portage)
> called transset, which I thought was supposed to set the transparency
> of windows in X. However, I haven't been able to get it to work.
>
> How does one take advantage of the transparency in the new release of
> Xorg? I'd love to be able to have a truly transparent Aterm, but I
> can't figure out how. Anyone know how to do this?
>
> Also, what's thie xcompmgr I keep hearing about? Is it related at all?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Andy
>
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Did that. Didn't see a huge difference.
Though in all fairness. I was emerging something in the background
(not niced), so the CPU was already being hammered. However, without
xcompmgr I could drag windows around w/o any problem, even under the
heavy load.

I think I'll wait till this has become more mature before using it.

-Andy

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On Monday 13 September 2004 11:06 am, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Monday 13 September 2004 15:58, Andrew Derby wrote:
> > You also need to have turned on
> > the composite & render extensions in your xorg.conf -
> >
> > Section "Extensions"
> > Option     "Composite"     "Enable"
> > Option     "RENDER"        "Enable"
> > EndSection
>
> ...which prevents Win4Lin from starting.
Peter,
Can this be corrected?

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On Monday 13 September 2004 01:24 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Monday 13 September 2004 17:13, Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> > On Monday 13 September 2004 11:06 am, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > > On Monday 13 September 2004 15:58, Andrew Derby wrote:
> > > > You also need to have turned on
> > > > the composite & render extensions in your xorg.conf -
> > > >
> > > > Section "Extensions"
> > > > Option     "Composite"     "Enable"
> > > > Option     "RENDER"        "Enable"
> > > > EndSection
> > >
> > > ...which prevents Win4Lin from starting.
> >
> > Peter,
> > Can this be corrected?
>
> Easily, by removing that "Extensions" section from xorg.conf.

Well yea, but that removes the transparency as well!

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Indeed, you'll have to wait for win4lin to support the newest xorg.
OR, you'll have to wait until there's a new release of xcompmgr wich
fixes this bug.


On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:40:35 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman <lists@ptfd.org> wrote:
> On Monday 13 September 2004 01:24 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > On Monday 13 September 2004 17:13, Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> > > On Monday 13 September 2004 11:06 am, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > > > On Monday 13 September 2004 15:58, Andrew Derby wrote:
> > > > > You also need to have turned on
> > > > > the composite & render extensions in your xorg.conf -
> > > > >
> > > > > Section "Extensions"
> > > > > Option "Composite" "Enable"
> > > > > Option "RENDER" "Enable"
> > > > > EndSection
> > > >
> > > > ...which prevents Win4Lin from starting.
> > >
> > > Peter,
> > > Can this be corrected?
> >
> > Easily, by removing that "Extensions" section from xorg.conf.
>
> Well yea, but that removes the transparency as well!
>
>
>
> Mike
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