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date: "2004-11-15T19:53:40Z"
title: Improving E16 Xorg Transparency Support
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<a href='/download/e-0.16.7.1-xorg_trans.patch.gz'>Here's</a> a patch against <a href='http://www.enlightenment.org/'>Enlightenment</a> 0.16.7.1 that adds better transparency support under the <acronym title='Concurrent Versioning System'>CVS</acronym> version of <a href='http://x.org/'>X.org</a>.  It's a little rough, but th patch basically makes windows partially transparent during an opaque move (<em>real</em> transparency, not the faked nonsense built-in to E16), and it adds a "Transparency" menu to the window operations menu (eg, the menu you get in most themes when you right-click on the title bar, or when you ALT+right-click anywhere in the window).  You'll need to clear your cached version of <code>menus.cfg</code> in order for the new menu to show up.  Here's a screenshot:
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<a href='/screenshots/e16-xorg_trans_shot-0.png'><img src='/screenshots/e16-xorg_trans_shot-0-thumb.png' width='400' height='300' title='better xorg transparency support in E16' alt='better xorg transparency support in E16' border='0' /></a>
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For those of you who haven't seen X.org transparency in action yet,
<a href='/screenshots/first_xorg_shot.png'>here's</a> the first screenshot I 
took once I got it set up:
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<a href='/screenshots/first_xorg_shot.png'><img src='/screenshots/first_xorg_shot-thumb.png' width='400' height='300' title='first xorg shot' alt='first xorg shot' border='0' /></a>
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Finally, if you're planning on setting up <a href='http://x.org/'>X.org</a>, but don't know where to start,
you might try <a href='/download/xorg_notes.txt'>reading my setup notes</a>.
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