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 [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 1st, 2009
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Enable Composite for Window Transparency in Enlightenment
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Dec 25th, 2008
- Comments: 4
Use Aterm for Transparent Terminal Effects
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 [...]
Blend is THE transparency software for Windows
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 [...]
Auto Window Manager
The freeware Auto Window Manager adds additional functionality to the way windows manages the windows it displays. You could for instance customize that whenever a program opens it opens in maximized, minimized or default state. This setting should work with most programs and windows, i tried it with firefox and thunderbird for example.
