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Transparent menus
Name: Jared Date: October 10, 2002 at 13:31:31 Pacific OS: MDK 9.0 CPU/Ram: athlon/256
Comment:
I saw screenshots on the Mandrake homepage showing desktops with transparent menus. Anyone know how to get these to work in Mandrake 9.0?
Name: tex Date: October 10, 2002 at 19:42:10 Pacific
Reply:
You could use the built in ones in KDE or get mosfets liquid theme. I prefer mosfets theme.
I would recomend going to plf.zarb.org. They tend to have the most updated packages for Mandrake. That's where I became lazy and just installed the RPM's they had for liquid instead of taking the time to compile it myself.
What can I say...time is sometimes precious!
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Response Number 2
Name: Frank Mimbs Date: October 11, 2002 at 11:18:34 Pacific
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I played with this last night.
I went to KDE control panel and found it under "styles". It on one of the tabs that comes up when you select your style. There's also a slider bar where you can adjust the level of transparency.
Sorry, I don't have it in front of me so that's all the info I can give you. Anyway, be aware that not all styles support the transparent menu.
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