Not about games, but making Xfce look way better… Please h

[colinkeenan]

I figured out how to make the Whiskermenu both dark and have some transparency (I set it to .9 – I don’t like stuff too transparent). Have a look:

I put in a request: https://github.com/gottcode/xfce4-whisk … /issues/87

Please leave comments telling the developer how much you want transparency for Whiskermenu.

Here’s my post on google+ explaining how I did it: https://plus.google.com/116390612729890 … etxCAj7MZT?

[Frojoe]

Because what XFCE needs is moar pretty.

[Venn Stone]

I started /w CDE. IMHO XFCE4 looks just fine.

[Pedro Mateus]

Compositing in XFCE (especially with XFWM4) is a performance killer. If you want eye-candy KDE is better, it has the most optimized composited window manager (KWin) and transparency is just about everywhere.

[linuxgnuru]

bah, I’m still using twm and it’s just fine.

[Venn Stone]

linuxgnuru wrote:

bah, I’m still using twm and it’s just fine.

AfterStep or GTFO

[kloinka]

My eyeballs are hyperglycaemic thanks to all the eye candy! Lick them and taste the sweetness

[PizzaDude]

cinnamon ftw

[colinkeenan]

I never heard of CDE. Google showed me this: http://pgbovine.net/cde.html which is CDE: Automatically create portable Linux applications. Somehow, I don’t think that’s what Venn started with.

I know what twn is, but I’m guessing that’s a joke.

So, what you’re all telling me is that transparency on Whiskermenu isn’t something you’d have the developer worry about.

[linuxgnuru]

CDE is Common Desktop Environment; last I used it was with HP-UX (and I think HP still owns it) twm; “tiny window manager” was really all you had to use back in the early 90s…

[Venn Stone]

linuxgnuru wrote:

CDE is Common Desktop Environment; last I used it was with HP-UX (and I think HP still owns it) twm; “tiny window manager” was really all you had to use back in the early 90s…

Billions of years ago in the futures past I was a SUN admin so yeah. CDE allthethings!

colinkeenan wrote:

So, what you’re all telling me is that transparency on Whiskermenu isn’t something you’d have the developer worry about.

Like CDE, XFCE is a get shite done desktop. I was irked when they introduced desktop icons.

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