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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
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Date:  Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:23:05 -0700
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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!
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
A mainframe: The biggest PC peripheral available.


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