Re: [Ayatana] Is RGBA not intended to be used with Metacity or just ignored?

You need to have a compositing manager running for RGBA to really do anything. Metacity has one built-in, as does compiz. Alternatively, if you're looking for something fast that'll do transparency, you can run Metacity (or most other window managers) without a built-in compositing manager turned on, and run an external one like xcompmgr (very basic) or cairo-compmgr (which has a little more glitz). I run openbox with xcompmgr or cairo-compmgr, depending on how strong the machine I'm using is.

Transparent titlebars need to be something the window manager turns on... I don't normally use Metacity, so I don't know if it does this normally.

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 10:08, Akshat Jain <ssj6akshat1234@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't know if this is the right place or not.If not forgive me.

I have been using RGBA GTK from the ppa and noticed that in order to use it you have to use a compositing window manager like compiz(which won't work on my system) or turn on the compositing feature of metacity from gconf,still the titlebars are not transparent when drawn by metacity or metacity+xcompmgr but are transparent with compiz or even wine.

So is RGBA not intended to be used with Metacity or I should raise a bug report requesting patching of metacity?

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