On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 02:48:19PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:

On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 02:16:37PM +0100, John Woodard wrote:

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At last Sundays meeting one of you I think it was Brett was running a window manager which had transparent windows.

Brett was running IceWM with Gnome, I believe (see icewm.cjb.net), but the transparent windows come from eterm, I think (see www.eterm.org).

MJR

wterm which is a modified rxvt afaik also does transparency, I think that's more a WindowMaker thing. aterm, which is more afterstep. You can of course use whatever terminal windows you want with whatever WM you want. I use transparent eterm's with enlightenment which seems to work well, only thing is the machine needs some time to wake up after I change desktop background images. Find them all over at http://freshmeat.net/

Ben White

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Thanks everybody maybe I'll attempt that at the next meeting when I can get some help. That's if we are not trying to get a network running. :-)

Cheers,

BJ ----- Original Message ----- From: Brett Parker iDunno@somethinweird.freeserve.co.uk To: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 5:09 PM Subject: [alug] Window manager

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What wm is it, where can I get it, how do I configure it to do that and

do

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any other wms have this facility?

Rite...yup...it probably was me ;) It was IceWM with Gnome, but the transparent terminal was an eterm (as someone...Mark?) has already pointed out...I find these the easiest to configure as its a quick have of one of the Eterm themes (/usr/share/Eterm/themes/Eterm) well...actually...its more copying the trans theme to Eterm and then hacking it to ur preferences :) I used Eterms in WindowMaker and Enlightenment before GNOME so I know that that works :)

Also, if ur interested in a transparent X-Chat window then X-Chat Gnome rocks...it uses the zxvt library (don't ask me ;) but is quite nice (if ur mad like me ;)

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Also I tried to load Debian to no avail (major hassles trying to get the

x

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server working), I think I still need some hand holding as yet so it's

back

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to RH6 which works a treat on my system.

What X Server?

Hope that was of use ;)

Brett Parker

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Graham Orme Graham@mentec.demon.co.uk wrote

This is not really a Linux problem, but it has come about because I want to install Linux, so I am hoping someone can provide some guidance.

I have just fitted a 8.4 GB hard disk and installed the dreaded Win98. This will no longer use my old browsers and insists that I sign up for MSNetwork before it will let me use the new Internet Explorer. Is there any way around this?

It is rather sad replying to your own posts, but I have solved it by installing Netscape Communicator.