E17 and fake transparency

E17 stores the background images in edje file format. Edje (*.edj) is a binary file format which compresses the images quite a bit and has many additional features (animations, layers etc.). Creating an animated background for e17 is quite easy (check here). There is already the wallpaper module in e17 which can set the current … Continue reading »

Real transparency in urxvt

Add the following lines to the ~/.Xdefaults to get a transparent urxvt terminal: urxvt*depth: 32 urxvt*background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/dddd The depth option tells urxvt to use 32 bits to define a color. Generally a color is represented as 24 bits (8 bits each for Red. Blue and Green). We add 8 more bits to store the Alpha(transparency) … Continue reading »