On Tuesday 14 February 2006 06:34, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 00:35, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > Welcome to my post, and remember to leave your flamewars at the door :) > > > > > > I've just installed KDE for the first time in a couple of years. It > > > seems to have come a long way. > > > > > > However, I have some eye candy I want to bring from Gnome - transparent > > > konsole is the first. > > > > turn on transparency in controll center (Arbeitsfläche is the menupoint > > ins german, shouild be desktop in english, below it, there is 'window > > properties' or so, where you can turn on transparency) > > I found "translucency" - is that it? I couldn't turn it on because it > asks for Xorg ≥ 6.8 (which I have) and some Xconfig changes. Is this > really necessary? I had a transparent terminal with kde once already, > and I didn't do anything special...
Yes that's it, and yes you do have to change some settings in xorg.conf if you haven't done so already. This wiki covers most of what you'd want/need http://gentoo-wiki.com/Xorg_X11_and_Transparency > > > Secondly, I start konsole with the following command (from another > > > konsole): > > > > > > konsole --geometry -0-0 > > > > it works with > > konsole -geometry 0x0 > > and > > konsole -geometry +0+0 > > > > see the singe - ? > > yes, but you should be able to specify a + OR - for the x and y offset > as well: > > -geometry WxH+Xoffs+Yoffs where > W: width > H: height > Xoffs: x offset* > Yoffs: y offset* > > * x is relative to the left screen edge, if positive, and relative to > right screen edge if negative. > * y is relative to the top screen edge, if positive, and relative to the > bottom screen edge, if negative. `konsole --help` doesn't mention the -geometry flag. I've tried it on my system and the kwin window placement ignores it in favor of the "Placement" setting in the tab "Moving" next to the "Translucency" tab. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
