xfce4 panel

[gardnerj]

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Heiko Berges <hb-mlist+xfce at bsls.de>
Reply-To: xfce at moongroup.com
Date:  Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:55:29 +0100

>On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:06:20AM -0500, Jonathan Gardner wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Are you using  "-tinttype true"?  IIRC this gives you pseudotransparent
>aterms in xfce. 
>
No, but I can try when I get home. For transparancy I've just been using the -tb flag. the scroll bar DOES do the transparency correctly. If it weren't for THAT, . . . well I'd be confused either way.

Jonathan