Hello
I’m trying to make my pager transparent. I had some colorset with the “rootTransparent” option but it does not work out. I really don’t know why. I’m using a 2.5.23 fvwm and fbsetbg to set my wallpaper.
Here is what I got in my .xsessions-error:
[FVWM][style_parse_and_set_window_style]: <<ERROR>> Bad style option: RootTransparent
[FVWM][__execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command 'CirculateSkipIcon,'
Does anyone could tell me how I could solve this error?
Thx in advance
Sure. I can only guess (since you haven’t actually posted your config — something you need to do), but “RootTransparent” is not a style, it’s something that goes along with the Colorset definition, a la:
Colorset n fg blah, bg blah, sh blah, tint blah, RootTransparent
Whereas, given the error message, you’ve obviously tried something like:
Style something RootTransparent
That’s clearly wrong.
As to “CirculateSkipIcon”, that’s a style condition as in:
Style foo CirculateSkipIcon
Whereas, I suspect (guessing again, remember) you’ve actually tried to do:
+ I CirculateSkipIcon
(See the advantage of uploading your config file somewhere yet?)
Thanks, I’ve corrected that point. But in fact it still does not work even if I use RootTransparent with some of my colorset. I will upload my config as soon as I, first, think it could be “showed” (I am very new to fvwm) and, second, find a place to upload it.
Yes, thks. I will work to correct my file and try to find a place to upload it. I will try to find some time to clean it up and then eventually will beg an upload place somewhere
Hello
As I can’t see any valuable reason in my config explaining the non-transparency of my pager and titlebar, I re-compile the patched version of the 2.5.23 which can be found here: abdn.ac.uk/~u15dm4/fvwm/
And it works perfectly fine…If only SuSe takes a patched version like Gentoo does…
RootTransparent is on fvwm itself, no need to patch anything. The only patch I know that is about transparencies is taviso’s menu translucency patch, that that is just for that: menu translucency. I don’t know since when is RootTransparent available, so maybe you were using on old version which did not support it.