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diff --git a/x11-wm/fvwm3/files/README.translucency b/x11-wm/fvwm3/files/README.translucency new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a60b5f668acd --- /dev/null +++ b/x11-wm/fvwm3/files/README.translucency @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +From owner-fvwm@hpc.uh.edu Sun Aug 31 22:52:59 2003 +Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) + by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) + id 19tb0F-0006NY-00; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:48:59 -0500 +Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:50:31 -0500 (CDT) +Received: from epithumia.math.uh.edu (epithumia.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.2]) + by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA16575 + for <fvwm@hpc.uh.edu>; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:50:24 -0500 (CDT) +Received: from epithumia.math.uh.edu (epithumia.math.uh.edu [127.0.0.1]) + by epithumia.math.uh.edu (8.12.8/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h7VMml6M025095 + for <fvwm@hpc.uh.edu>; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:48:47 -0500 +Received: (from tibbs@localhost) + by epithumia.math.uh.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h7VMmlVC025093 + for fvwm@hpc.uh.edu; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:48:47 -0500 +Received: from util2.math.uh.edu (util2.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.23]) + by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA16418 + for <fvwm@hpc.uh.edu>; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:02:07 -0500 (CDT) +Received: from postfix4-2.free.fr ([213.228.0.176]) + by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.20) + id 19tZIm-00079F-6t + for fvwm@fvwm.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:00:00 -0500 +Received: from snoopy.folie (nas-p19-3-62-147-221-172.dial.proxad.net [62.147.221.172]) + by postfix4-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59DE6C386 + for <fvwm@fvwm.org>; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:59:34 +0200 (CEST) +Received: by snoopy.folie (Postfix, from userid 501) + id A4D1D48784; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:39:19 +0200 (CEST) +Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:39:19 +0200 +From: Olivier Chapuis <olivier.chapuis@free.fr> +To: fvwm@fvwm.org +Subject: Re: FVWM: Transparency/Translucency revisited... +Message-ID: <20030831203919.GA6205@snoopy.folie> +Mail-Followup-To: fvwm@fvwm.org +References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308251817370.1980-100000@atlantis.ssw.krakow.pl> +Mime-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z" +Content-Disposition: inline +In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308251817370.1980-100000@atlantis.ssw.krakow.pl> +User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i +X-Spam-Score: -9.3 (---------) +Sender: owner-fvwm@hpc.uh.edu +Precedence: list +X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 +Status: RO +Content-Length: 6519 +Lines: 122 + + +--Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii +Content-Disposition: inline + +On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:00:32PM +0200, Dawid Kuroczko wrote: +> Hello. :-) +> +> I did manage to make pseudo-transparent menus, but now I'd like +> to make something more "real". What I'd like to do is to have +> something like there is in KDE. +> +> It should work like this: +> 1. user clicks thus calling a Menu. +> 2. current screen dump is taken (with all the windows, but +> without a menu just as yet). +> 3. this screen dump is made available to Menu as +> root background pixmap. +> 4. Menu is displayed with tinted real background. +> +> This way it's pretty easy to make an illusion of real +> transparency (and looks "l33t", as some may say). +> + +Here a new version of the patch for current cvs/snapshot. +This patch add a new options to Colorset: Translucent/NoTranslucent. +These options has effects only with (non tear-off) menu. +Also menu animation is "handled". + +For example with: + + Colorset 5 fg yellow, bg blue, HGradient 200 lightblue darkblue, \ + Translucent blue 60 + Style * MenuColorset 5, PopupOffset 0 100, AnimationOff + +you get translucent menus (with a 60% blue tint) and if you tear-off +a menu the menu use the gradient. + +Regards, Olivier + +<snip patch> + +-- +Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. +To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a +message to majordomo@fvwm.org. +To report problems, send mail to fvwm-owner@fvwm.org. + |