xfce4 panel

[Jonathan Gardner]

On Monday, the 27th day of January, in the year of our Lord 2003, at 02:16
PM the esteemed person of letters, Jasper Huijsmans quoth:

JH> sorry, xfdeskmenu is rather useless in combination with xfdesktop,
JH> since the latter program uses its own fullscreen background window,
JH> meaning mouseclicks never reach the X root window. xfdeskmenu listens
JH> to mouse clicks on the X root window, so that won't work.

Could this in part explain there weirdness I've been experiencing with
aterm transparency? I had a short thread going on about it on the
xfce4-dev list, It's the strangest thing, but while the sidebar is showing
transparency correctly. Perhaps what the body of aterm is showing through
is the root window, where there is no image as you say xfdesktop sits on
top of the root window as a full screen background window.
I know the transparency works correctly when I use xfbd4 but not
xfdesktop. Gnome-terminal works correctly no matter what and while it's
pretty and has nice tabs, I don't really think its worth the 10x memory
usage of aterm. I've had my suspicions that aterm was looking right
through the background image.

Cheers,
Jonathan



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