Totovich Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 Does someone has a good theme rpm from http://www.kde-look.org/ or somewhere else, where you can setup transparant windows? So not only the title bar or status bars. Tanx in advance and now I started a topic: is it normal that linux startup time is very slow? How can I decrease the boottime? btw, it is not my hardware that is slow ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 transparency has nothing to do with kde-look org and rpm packages. it has to do with the xserver. if you have x11 on yor box, you can enable transparency but this is useless on an older machine as it will become extremely slow. in order to increase your startup time, you might want to disable some services like harddrake at startup in mandrake-control-center → system → services. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totovich Posted January 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 transparency has nothing to do with kde-look org and rpm packages. it has to do with the xserver. if you have x11 on yor box, you can enable transparency but this is useless on an older machine as it will become extremely slow. in order to increase your startup time, you might want to disable some services like harddrake at startup in mandrake-control-center → system → services. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> tanx for the answer. I did this: [root@10-91-6-85 kristof]# urpmi x11De volgende pakketten bevatten x11: dbus-x11 gstreamer-x11 libSDL_gfx11 libSDL_gfx11-devel libSDL_gfx11-static-devel libgtk+-x11-2.0_0 libxorg-x11 libxorg-x11-devel libxorg-x11-static-devel ncbi-tools-x11 pcmcia-cs-x11 quake2-x11 quakeforge-clients-x11 xmame-x11 xmess-x11 xorg-x11 xorg-x11-100dpi-fonts xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts xorg-x11-Xnest xorg-x11-Xvfb xorg-x11-cyrillic-fonts xorg-x11-doc xorg-x11-glide-module xorg-x11-server xorg-x11-xfs but I have alreay installed most of this stuff. So IF I have already xserver, how can I setup it so the windows are transparant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 (edited) well, mandrake is known for ease of use, not speed. you can stop services running at boot, like pcmcia if you don't use it. GNOME also starts much faster than KDE in my experience, and I think it looks better too. www.kde-look.org and www.gnome-look.org are good places to get themes. Lastly, you can recompile your kernel to make it much smaller and faster - mandrake kernels are very, very bloated. Some experimental patches like the kernel nitro patches might make it even faster. i don't think you should do the xorg transparency for now, since it makes things so much slower. but if you really want it, you should have Xorg 6.8 (urpmi --test xorg-x11) and follow the HOWTO in the tips and tricks section in this board. Edited January 24, 2005 by arthur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totovich Posted January 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 (edited) I'm pretty sure I have everything already installed of xorg x11, but I don't know how I can make the windows transparant now. I went to configure your workenvironnement, and when I go to windowdecoration or style or whatever, I can only make the titlebar transparant, but not the windowbackground. Or am i doing something wrong? btw, is gnome really faster than kde? If so, I will try gnome over a couple weeks. update: actually I want to try GNOME now, but is it possible to use gnome instead of kde without re-installing mandrake in total? how? Edited January 26, 2005 by Totovich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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