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Im trying to use Eterm, gkrellm, torsmo or another application that uses fake transparency and it isn working. Whats wrong?

April 26, 2017application Eterm transparency uses working wrong

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Im trying to use Eterm, gkrellm, torsmo or another application that uses fake transparency and it isn working. Whats wrong?

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E17 doesn’t support fake transparency. Real transparency is used by E17 modules instead. It is possible to force fake transparency usage by setting a root window background with Esetroot (included with Eterm) or e17setroot (included with e_utils, needs Esetroot to be able to force fake transparency). Note that the background you set with Esetroot will not show up in E17, only the applications that use fake transparency will see it. Note that this is a pretty ugly workaround – some apps may not work correctly even if you force fake transparency with Esetroot/e17setroot. Also note that this is such an ugly hack that raster may remove the ability to do so sometime in the future.