I’m running a basic theme on my Windows 8 Professional system, mostly because I do not like the transparency effects at all. If you have installed or updated the email client Thunderbird recently under Windows, you may have noticed that Mozilla Messaging went in heavy in regards to Aero support. All toolbars make use of [...]

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I do not like the concept of permanent window transparency at all, as I feel that it makes it a lot harder to interact with the open windows on the operating system. See Through Windows is a brand new application for Windows that adds a twist to window transparency. Instead of making windows transparent all [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Recently I had a request to illustrate how I managed to get a particular theme working in GNOME. The article referenced was my article on “What will Ubuntu 10.04 bring to the table“. The image in that article was using a number of cool tricks to get the look they had. So I thought I [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Recently I covered the addition of RGBA support in Ubuntu (see my article “Enable RGBA support in Ubuntu“). I’ve had a lot of people contact me about various tweaks to that desktop to further refine the look. So I thought I would take the time to show you just how to tweak a Ubuntu desktop [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

If you have played around with the Enlightenment window manager you know it is, for such a lightweight window manager, pretty impressive. But if you’ve not enabled compositing, you have yet to see how much you can do with transparency. Although compositing in Enlightenment will require the necessary hardware (a video card capable of using [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

If you’re like me you wind up using the command line a LOT. And when I am in the command line I prefer to at least enjoy the experience. To help add a little joy to this experience I use Aterm. Aterm is the termain emulator that was developed for the AfterStep window manager. That [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

While I’m not someone that likes transparent windows I can acknowledge that some users might find it pretty useful. Blend is a tiny Windows application that can deliver transparency for all or selected windows. The first start was actually quite a shock for me because it did apply transparency to all windows directly and I [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows