One other note, you will also need Load "extmod" in your X server config file for the alpha to work. Otherwise you wont notice true alpha being on. The easiest way to tell if you have true alpha on is to make the taskbar transperant and then move a window BEHIND it. If you can see the window, you have alpha on. If it is still showing the desktop background, then alpha is still not working for some reason.
Ryan wrote: >It might be that he's running the new KDE alpha transparency (That is >itself in alpha stage). For Gentoo it comes in 3.4, but it is REALLY >REALLY slow for me, so I dont use it. But I noticed that the console >transperancy changes as you move the window rather than when you drop >it. You can find the alpha transparency switches in the KDE Control >panel in the Apperance/Style/Effects tab. Just put a check in enable >GUI effects and you will notice that Konsole now uses real alpha >transperency, but it'll probably slow down the system considerably. > >Simon Maynard wrote: > > > >>It shouldn't be a hardware issue as my machine has a Geforce 4 running >>the nvidia-drivers. He has a Geforce 3 running the nvidia-drivers also. >>I am also running the latest stable versions of everything mixed with a >>few unstable packages. So it shouldn't be a problem regarding me running >>out of date software. >> >>Thanks >> >>Simon >> >>On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 18:46 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>Simon Maynard wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Using my friends Debian machine yesterday and his terminals had a >>>>"better" transparency than mine. Gnome-terminal, Eterm and Aterm all >>>>refreshed their transparency when moving the terminals around, whereas >>>>on my box I have to drop the terminal before the transparency updates. >>>>He also informed me that the terminals had the same behaviour when using >>>>Gentoo, by default. >>>> >>>>Am i missing a USE flag or some option somewhere? >>>> >>>>Thanks, >>>> >>>>Simon >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>I have the same thing, but on two gentoo boxes. On one it will not >>>refresh until you drop the terminal. The other will update as I drag it >>>along. I can send you my use flags (for the box that it does work on), >>>but i dont think its that. The only difference between these machines >>>is that the one where it has "better transparency" has been updated >>>while the older one hasnt been updated so much (due to a lack of space >>>on the HD) . >>> >>>I dont know, maybe i inadvertantly set it up, because i dont recollect >>>deliberatly enabling it (oh yeah, the 'working' laptop has DRI and other >>>HW-accel enabled, come to think if it maybe thats why the transparency >>>works better). >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
