taskbar panel transparency

[Olivier Fourdan]

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 01:33 +0800, brandon wrote:
> So, how do i check whether i already have the embedded compositing
> manager is compiled in already or not? 

If you had it compiled it, you'd know because you would see shadows
under the windows and a translucent Xfce panel.

> if not, can i just install it over my xfce or do i have to recompile
> it? 

You have to recompile xfwm4 and specify "--enable-compositor" among
the ./configure parameters.

Please see the documentation (a copy is available online here
http://www.loculus.nl/xfce/documentation/docs-4.2/xfwm4.html )

> and if it is, how to i alter the settings for it to make the panel
> transparent?

Please see the documentation (a copy is available online here
http://www.loculus.nl/xfce/documentation/docs-4.2/xfce4-
panel.html#panel-transparency )

HTH
Olivier.

>  thanks
> 
> Olivier Fourdan wrote: 
> > Hi
> > 
> > xcompmgr is a compositing manager, and xfwm4 already includes one (but
> > it's not compiled in by default), so xcompmgr is not needed. A
> > compositing manager is a complex tool in charge of "composing" the
> > screen from the different windows that are supposed to be seen, applying
> > transparency between them and their overlapping areas.
> > 
> > "transset" is just a simple tool that instructs the compositing manager
> > to force an opacity on an existing window. "transset" uses virtually not
> > resource by itself.
> > 
> > The Xfce panel doesn't need transset and is able to change its opacity
> > on the fly when the mouse pointer enter/leave the panel. This works only
> > when a compositing manager is running, either the embedded one or an
> > external compositing manager such as xcompmgr.
> > 
> > HTH
> > Olivier.
> > 
> > On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 23:41 +0800, brandon wrote:
> >   
> > > ouch.... was hoping that i could do that with some xfce without xcompmgr 
> > > and transet like in gnome or kde... ok then is there anyway to edit the 
> > > colour of the taskbar? other than changing the theme entirely?
> > > 
> > > Patrick Yavitz wrote:
> > > 
> > >     
> > > > brandon wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >       
> > > > > Hi, is it possible to make the taskbar panel transparent, like in 
> > > > > gnome? if so how do i do it? thanks
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> > > > using transset or transset-df it is...
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