Transparency in KDE

[Minakata Moriya <hugo@animenaveia.net>]

Hau!

I contacted Peter, telling him that X-Chat can't get the KDE's WM wallpaper 
for transparency effects... He never worked in KDE, so I got some information 
about this.

Recently versions of KDE (2+) use a different method for putting wallpapers 
on the user's desktop. A program named kdesktop fills up the root window 
(where X-Chat tries to get the wallpaper), and setting the wallpapers, icons 
and stuff inside the kdesktop, leaving the root window empty.

I contacted some developers of KDE, and they told me this:

"Try activating the option in "Configure Desktop" that is called "Support 
Programs in Desktop Window" (and read the what's this for it), it might fixy 
our problem. (Note: you need 2.2-beta1 for this)"

I didn't try it because I still use KDE 2.1.1, and the option is only avaible 
in the 2.2-beta1 version. But I think that it sets the background in the root 
window too.

So there's a sollution, but in a Beta that not everybody uses. Anyone here 
knows a program that makes transparency effects (aterm?) on the KDE desktop? 
The code might be useful for looking how it works.

-- Minakata Moriya
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