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[Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

First off, your English is actually quite good, don't worry about it :)

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?
>
> I know my english is pretty bad.
> --
> I am 14 year old and make a lot of typos.
> I am a non-native english speaker.
> I will never answer emails half-asleep again.
> I love Ubuntu.
>
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