Monthly calendar

[Darren Wheatley]

Hi,

I'm not sure I'm asking for the right thing, but I just turned transparency
on in the shell window and it works fine.

I take it that it doesn't work anywhere else?

Regards

D.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "volvoguy" <volvoguy at gmail.com>
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: Monthly calendar


> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:08:30 -0700, Ubuntu Forums Post
> <list at ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>
> > You mention transparent backgrounds etc in your posting.
> >
> > Can you tell me how I get transparency working in Ubuntu, especially
transparent shells windows etc?
>
> That's not the kind of transparency I was talking about. I just meant
> that if you have a semi-transparent Ubuntu logo in SVG format, you can
> set that as your background and change the background color all you
> want, while retaining the transparent logo.
>
> The transparency you're talking about will most likely be a little way
> off. It requires the newer X.org X server, and a window manager (or
> desktop environment) that knows how to handle the transparency stuff.
> To my knowledge, the only way to do this at the moment is to use a few
> hacks that are really just "proof of concept" type things. It's really
> not that usable or easily configurable yet.
>
> Aaron
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