After few forums and some hour searching on the web and divided opinion about this, I just made to have transparent Windows and Menus (main menu, dropdown menu) on Fedora 13 with Gnome. o.k. maybe it was easy for some of you, but after looking on the web, there are a lot of people who doesn't know how to accomplish this, so I decided to make a simple but useful tutorial about this. So let's begin:
1.- Open your terminal and change ti super user
su - (after this, press enter and type your root password)
2.- type in your terminal the next commands to install the complete suite of compiz, by default Fedora has the compiz and compiz-gnome, so you can just delete the first 2 parameters:
Complete Suite (If you don't have compiz):
yum install compiz compiz-gnome emerald emerald-themes fusion-icon compiz-fusion-extras compiz-fusion-extras-gnome compizconfig-backend-gconf
Minimal settings (This is just what I need with the default Fedora 13 installation):
yum install compiz-fusion-extras compiz-fusion-extras-gnome compizconfig-backend-gconf
And if you want to have the Menus and Windows Transparency open your CompizConfig Setting Manager under the System->Preferences menu and go to the Opacity, Brightness and Saturation section and add the next line to the menu:
Tooltip | Menu | PopupMenu | DropdownMenu
And after this, your are good to go and try your new desktop effects provided by Compiz, here are some keyboard shortcuts. Enjoy
| Desktop Effects1 | Keyboard Shortcuts |
|---|---|
| Rotate Cube | Mousewheel on Desktop |
| Switcher2 | Alt + Tab |
| Shift Switcher3 | Super + Tab (2 modes: flip and cover) |
| Ring Switcher | Super + Tab – overrides Shift Switcher |
| Expo | Super + E (toggle) |
| Film Effect | Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow4 |
| Rotate Cube Manually | Ctrl + Alt + Left Mouse Button |
| Scale Windows | Alt + Shift + Up Arrow |
| Show/Clear Desktop | Ctrl + Alt + D (toggle) |
| Snapping Windows | Move a window across workspaces5 |
| Screenshot | Super + Left Mouse Button |
| Zoom In/Out | Super + Mousewheel |
| Transparent Window | Alt + Mousewheel |
| Resize Window | Alt + F8 |
| Move Window | Alt + F7 |
| Add Helper | Super + P |
| Widget Layer | F9 (toggle) |
| Water Effects | Shift + F9 (toggle) |
| Fire Effects: On | Super + Shift + Left Mouse Button |
| Fire Effects: Clear | Super + Shift + C |
| Annotate: Draw | Super + Left Mouse Button |
| Annotate: Start | Super + 1 |
| Annotate: End | Super + 3 |
| Group: Select Window(s) | Super + S |
| Group: Group Windows | Super + T |
| Group: Ungroup Windows | Super + U |
| Group: Flip Windows | Super + Right or Left Arrow |
1 Effects have to be enabled to see results.
2 To see the full effect, have multiple windows or programs open.
3 To configure: Go to Advanced Desktop Effects Settings.
4 Use left and right arrow thereafter to move to workspaces.
5 Disables Wobbly Windows.
Source: Voices in my Head (and Google)
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