X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Cygwin bash Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:23:05 -0700 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <48EB8CE9.8060105@DeFaria.com> References: <002201c92830$f7204c00$4001a8c0@mycomputer> <48EAD969.661BDDC9@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Gustavo Seabra wrote: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> Well me! I tried playing around with the -ip option to rxvt which >> says inherit parent pixmap. This essentially allows you to have semi >> transparent windows. Pretty cool. But the bad part is there doesn't >> seem to be a way to control the amount of transparency. Anybody know >> if that is possible? > > You can try using vitrite instead: http://www.vanmiddlesworth.org/vitrite > > With that you can set the transparency for *any* window in Windows > (not only rxvt). You can set the transparency from 0 to 9 with just a > ctrl+shift+[0-9]. really simple app, and very useful when you have a > large number of widows open at the same time. This looks real interesting. I'll have to play with it more. Thanks for the pointer! -- Andrew DeFaria A mainframe: The biggest PC peripheral available. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/