Re: What distros provide a default IceWM environment?

On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 12:59:58PM -1000, David Iannucci wrote:
> 
> It seems you haven't use transparency much at all :-D ... in my
> experience, transparent windows in Xorg (at least - can't speak for MS
> Win) never show "underlapped" windows... the background that shows
> through is always just the root window image, no matter what's
> underneath.... for exactly the reason you say -- it'd be useless
> otherwise (or, could this be a feature of KDE rather than Xorg? Hard to
> imagine). If you choose your root image well and set transparency to a
> dark enough level, it's quite nice :-)
> 
 OK, so I've learned that transparency isn't what I'd imagined.
But, I don't have any background image (except when xsnow is
running), and I actually liked the old xserver pattern.

> >  Myself, I *only* use Xft fonts (e.g. ttf fonts - unlike the author/
> >  maintainer of urxvt) and I've got it configured in .Xresources with -
> 
> Hmmm... this is potentially of interest to me. Are you saying that
> rxvt allows *proportionally spaced* fonts?  Or am I inappropriately
> conflating TTF as a technology with the orthogonal property of font
> spacing-ness?
> 
 I only use monospaced fonts in rxvt-unicode.  At the moment, I've got
too many terminals open to try changing that.  I've a vague feeling
that I accidentally used a non-monospaced font once on my old ibook,
but I'm not sure.
> >  I'm tempted to say that almost everyone uses gdk-pixbuf these days,
> >  but since you're using such an old kde that might not be true for you
> >  - probably, even older versions of gtk+-2 will fulfil that
> >    dependency.
> 
> I'm not sure, but... I wouldn't expect KDE to use gtk-anything... no?
> 

 True, but most people use gtk+-2, e.g. to build icewm!

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