I just finished getting Fedora configured on my netbook and wanted to setup my consoles with a slightly transparent background. But when I go to do so, I get a message that my desktop appears not to support transparency. Has anyone seen this before? I know transparency works on this hardware since I had it configured in Kubuntu on this box.
Is there some setting I need to change?
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Mark Haney markh@abemblem.com wrote:
I just finished getting Fedora configured on my netbook and wanted to setup my consoles with a slightly transparent background. But when I go to do so, I get a message that my desktop appears not to support transparency. Has anyone seen this before? I know transparency works on this hardware since I had it configured in Kubuntu on this box.
Is there some setting I need to change?
I assume you're still using KDE? In that case, you probably have to enable Desktop Effects in System Settings for transparency to be functional. It's disabled by default on Fedora, while Kubuntu enables it IIRC.
-T.C.
On 04/03/2012 09:21 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
I assume you're still using KDE? In that case, you probably have to enable Desktop Effects in System Settings for transparency to be functional. It's disabled by default on Fedora, while Kubuntu enables it IIRC.
-T.C.
I've enabled it and will check it after I reboot. I could have sworn that I didn't need to do that before. I know I used transparency in KDE3. Devs must have folded that into Desktop Effects.
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Mark Haney markh@abemblem.com wrote:
On 04/03/2012 09:21 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
I assume you're still using KDE? In that case, you probably have to enable Desktop Effects in System Settings for transparency to be functional. It's disabled by default on Fedora, while Kubuntu enables it IIRC.
-T.C.
I've enabled it and will check it after I reboot. I could have sworn that I didn't need to do that before. I know I used transparency in KDE3. Devs must have folded that into Desktop Effects.
No need to reboot, just press ALT+SHIFT+F12 to enable desktop effects immediately. (It used to just enable it automatically when you checked the enable them at startup box, but I guess it doesn't anymore...)
KDE 3 actually had rudimentary support for desktop effects in later versions, which Konsole could use for transparency. Before that, it supported "fake transparency" which just used the desktop wallpaper as a background to the terminal.
-T.C.
On 04/03/2012 11:05 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Mark Haneymarkh@abemblem.com wrote:
On 04/03/2012 09:21 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
No need to reboot, just press ALT+SHIFT+F12 to enable desktop effects immediately. (It used to just enable it automatically when you checked the enable them at startup box, but I guess it doesn't anymore...)
KDE 3 actually had rudimentary support for desktop effects in later versions, which Konsole could use for transparency. Before that, it supported "fake transparency" which just used the desktop wallpaper as a background to the terminal.
-T.C.
A reboot is kinda necessary when I just upgraded kde-libs. :)