Re: Various troubles, firstly icewmbg

On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Dave wrote:

>
> p.s. There is one thing that I very decidedly DO NOT love about icewm...
>     something that is very clearly a bug, and a major one. However I
>     suspect it only appears when running under KDE3, since apparently
>     no one else but me is bothered by it in all these years. I have
>     mentioned it on this list before, but rather than do so again, I
>     feel I really need to get standalone icewm working first, so I can
>     test my hypothesis properly.  If I can get a standalone desktop
>     running, and the bug is still there, I'm afraid I will dump icewm
>     for awesome. But it will have been mostly a very pleasant 10 years
>     or more using it....

Using IceWM on X, just start "xinit" then in plain xterm window start 
"icewm-session". icewmbg sets my background without a problem. Both the 
Fedora distribution one and myself compiled with default options. Not 
using transparency, but as usually, this is a matter of application, not a 
WM. The terms that do transparency most often use so called "pseudo 
transparency" - i.e. you see a background but not a windows beneath. Full 
transparency IMHO needs composition manager.

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