Feh - have transparency with fluxbox
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INTRO
Fluxbox is a window manager. One of many graphical environments available for *nix-based systems and is available in BLAG's repo. It's small, fast and very configurable. A nice feature of Fluxbox is the availability of eye candy. The following allows transparency.
After this configuration you will be able to see transparent terminal, menus or any other apps that support that feature.
Background preparation
I've grabbed fluxbox from source as I tend to use the development realease. It's very stable - honest ;)
Configuration
Grab the latest stable development version from here http://fluxbox.org/download.php. You could grab it from cvs....
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fluxbox/fluxbox-0.9.14.tar.gz Is the current version at the time of writing (Feb 2006). The remainder is done as root
cp fluxbox-0.9.14.tar.gz /usr/local/src # my choice of installation directory. See man hier for a guide cd /usr/local/src tar zxf fluxbox-0.9.14.tar.gz cd fluxbox-0.9.14 ../configure && make && make install
Fluxbox should now be installed but with no transparency. Here goes.
apt-get -y install giblib giblib-devel imlib2 imlib2-devel libjpeg libjpeg-devel libpng libpng-devel cd /usr/local/src/feh-1.3.4 ./configure --prefix=/usr make --reconcon make --warn-undefined-variables
Next you use your menu. Aim for "configure" and "transparency". I tend to use values around 150. Use the menu again to restart fluxbox, you will not be logged out. You have a picture to set as a background?
fbsetbg -f /path/to/picture
You use aterm?
aterm -tr +sb -fg white
screenshots
http://howtoforge.com/image/tid/44
sources and notes
Source; man fluxbox http://linuxbrit.co.uk/ - jayeola
