xfce4 panel

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Jonathan Gardner wrote:
> 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.

I'm using transparent aterms in XFCE4 without a single problem.

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