Enable low-resource compositing on ubuntu
April 4, 2010
install xcompmgr and transset:
sudo apt-get install xcompmgr transset
now add xcompmgr to the startup items:
System > Preferences > Startup Applications > Add
name: Compositing Manager
Command: xcompmgr -c -f -F
Comment: Shiny!
Log out and log back in again.
You now have shiny effects enabled. You can set transparency per window:
transset 0.7
Then click the window you want to set to this opacity value.
you can automate this by creating launchers on your desktop or in a gnome panel, to make a window transparent or opaque. For instance, i have a launcher for transparent (transset 0.5
) and a launcher for opaque (transset 1
)
Done 🙂
Toon
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