console transparency 'not supported'

[Mark Haney]

On 04/03/2012 11:05 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Mark Haney<markh at abemblem.com>  wrote:
>> On 04/03/2012 09:21 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>>

> No need to reboot, just press ALT+SHIFT+F12 to enable desktop effects
> immediately.  (It used to just enable it automatically when you
> checked the enable them at startup box, but I guess it doesn't
> anymore...)
>
> KDE 3 actually had rudimentary support for desktop effects in later
> versions, which Konsole could use for transparency.  Before that, it
> supported "fake transparency" which just used the desktop wallpaper as
> a background to the terminal.
>
> -T.C.

A reboot is kinda necessary when I just upgraded kde-libs.  :)

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Mark Haney
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AB Emblem
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