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[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey,

Composition isnt on by default for metacity thats why it doesnt work.
Its not on because it lowers the system requirements for running Ubuntu
and because compiz offers better composition anyway. I havent tested
rgba at all I will when a theme is pushed that uses it but id say it
would work with metacity+composition too but it should work with mutter
which should replace metacity for 11.04 is gnome-shell is the default.

--fagan

On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 12:38 -0600, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
> 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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