xfce4 panel

[Heiko Berges]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:01:50AM -0500, gardnerj wrote:
> ---------- 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

Yes.  See below.

> >> 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.
[reformated by me, to fit into my terminal]

The transparency of the scrollbar is independent from the terminal-
window.

I tried it now, and found, that the fast tinting-types show the real
rootwindow (can be set with xv or xset-root), and this is why they
are faster; while the true tinting shows the backdrop of xfce, as
gnome-term does.

This is documented somewhere in a hidden corner of the aterm- or
rxvt documentation, or maybe in the source, but I can't remember 
where.  The fast tinting is a big win on smaller machines like my
old 486 DX 2.

If you want tabs and transparency with less overhead than 
gnome-terminal, you may want to try eterm/escreen.


	Heiko