how do i set window transparancy in fluxbox?

[Vincent Vandalon]

1)
First you must use one of the newer versions(0.92 or later... Im using 
0.99). So use /usr/ports/x11-wm/fluxbox-devel instead of the fluxbox if 
you want transparancy.

Secondly you must use a good backgroud-setting-ap(see second link!) as 
background setter icm with fbsetbg. I recommend 
feh(/usr/ports/graphics/feh/ , but that's up to you.
See here:
http://www.fluxbox.org/docs/en/faq.php#menualpha
And here:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/fluxbox/fbsetbg.html

I don't think you can make any arbitrary window transparant, the 
Fluxbox-graphics(menu, toolbar etc) can be made transparant. But for a 
transparant terminal you will have to use aterm or eterm...and firefox i 
don't know if it can be done. But if i am wrong please correct me!

2)
For the menu part, type >fluxbox-generate_menu -h for help
This will generate the menu (if you leave the -h out of course). 
Remember it _will_ override the ~/.fluxbox/menu file, so if you already 
tweaked it you will lose that. So in that case make a backup of that file


Ron Ganzer wrote:

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>i have fluxbox up and running 
>but i have two problems with which i cant see a solution :
>
>1) how do i set fluxbox's famous window transparancy?
>2) is there a way to "create" a "start menu" like in gnome? (other users use this comp)
>
>
>thanks guys,
>ganzman
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