Compiz Shadows Question
First, thanks in advance to the community for your help. (And thanks to the Arch Devs!)
Anyway, I am using Gnome and Compiz. I have the window decorations and such set up the way I like them. But now a question. How do I change the color of the window shadows? They are red/pink right now, as can bee seen from this screenshot:
http://www.bigpony.com/linuxscreenshots/redshadows.png
Now, whenever I go into either Compiz configurations OR Emerald configurations, my shadow colors are set the way a I want them (a dark black/blue color). When I boot up, the red shadows are there. When I go to mess with them, they just disappear. When I reboot, the red shadows are back. Does anyone have an idea of what could be causing this and how to change the shadows colors?
Again, thanks in advance.
mrunion wrote:
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I'm not sure we're talking about the same problem. Like right now I have a little orangy-yello glow around my windows. That's cool -- I set it that way. But I'll bet you the next time I log out and log in OR reboot, there's a 50/50 chance I'll have no window glow/halo. Sometimes The halo is a nice CYAN color I didn't set.
The problem (at least for me) is that the halo is configured correctly, but it only shows up sometimes and other times it does not. Check out my video in posting #3 and see what I'm talking about.
I never had _this_ specific problem, but a lot of times I had upgraded compiz and then some plugin changes its configuration or stops working. Compiz is beta software, so when its development change (and changes a lot), something get broke on the gconf, it happens all the time.
So, even its another problem you are having, you can try fixing it by cleaning up the old config and starting again (of course, considering isn't the plugin itself that is borked).
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around words and text. Can Dreamweaver put a drop shadow
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Hi,
I installed openbox-svn visibility-svn obconf2-svn from smoons repo, and everything seemed to work fine at first...
Then I messed with the themes and now everytime I try to acces the RMB menu openbox crashes and goes back to slim?
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What is the forum for VDI Shadowing questions?
Specifically, which VDI operating systems can be shadowed using Windows Server 2012 R2?
Hi Don ,
The shadow feature returns with Windows Server 2012 R2. Shadow allows server administrators to either view or take control of RDP sessions.
Here is the link for the information you need :
Remote Desktop Services Session Shadowing
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/19804.remote-desktop-services-session-shadowing.aspx
VDI is a centralized desktop delivery solution.
For detailed information of VDI :
Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Explained :
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/video/microsoft-virtual-desktop-infrastructure-vdi-explained.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
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Drop Shadows Look Too Solid When Printed
Designer newbie here with a drop shadow question. I am working on a project using vintage-style square photos with a white stroke and a drop shadow. It looks great on the screen but I just got a page back from the printer and the drop shadows are way too solid-looking on the paper. They almost look like grey boxes around the photo.
This is a personal project and every time I print, I have to go to FedEx Office to pick it up, so I don't want to just fiddle. I'm hoping you can help me. How do I get them to look more subtle? I tried lowering the opacity and they just looked like lighter gray boxes around the photo.
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Thanks!The High Quality Press preset exports color unchanged so a default drop shadow will export as CMYK black percentages. I'm assuming that the FedX printer is some kind of composite copier and it might not color manage device CMYK values very well. By default ID documents are set up for US SWOP web press printing, which the FedX printer is not.
I don't think there's an easy answer for you, but I would build a test sheet with a dozen or so boxes with different shadows. It's not unusual for composite digital printer to have trouble with CMYK values, so try some shadows with RGB as the color and export with the PDF/X-4 preset.
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Ok, this is one of those really stupid questions that a google or forum search should answer in a second, if only I knew the correct magic keywords to search for. :-D
I'm working on Metisse (the client for which is basically a slightly hacked fvwm) and want to customize the configuration to my liking. I thought of copying an existing fvwm theme (maybe a clearlooks theme), but I really ought to understand the configuration I was provided with and each of the options I change as I change them rather than clobbering it.
Now, that simple silly problem I've got. No matter what I do, I can't seem to define a colorset that doesn't put some kind of highlight or shadow around the font in menus, titlebars, etc. If I don't specify highlight and shadow, it generates one for me. If I try to make it the same as the fg, it makes the letters look wide and blocky.
Its gotta be simple, what am I missing?
Also, Is there a difference between 'fgsh' and 'sh' in the colorset specification?
Thanks,
Dustyfor your shadow question, this (from the fvwm man page) may be of help:
FONT SHADOW EFFECTS
Fonts can be given 3d effects. At the beginning of the font name (or just after a possible StringEncoding specification) add
Shadow=size [offset] [directions]:
size is a positive integer which specifies the number of pixels of shadow. offset is an optional positive integer which defines the number of pixels to offset the shadow from the edge of the character. The default offset is zero. directions is an optional set of directions the shadow emanates from the character. The directions are a space separated list of fvwm directions:
N, North, Top, t, Up, u, -
E, East, Right, r, Right, r, ]
S, South, Bottom, b, Down, d, _
W, West, Left, l, Left, l, [
NE, NorthEast, TopRight, tr, UpRight, ur, ^
SE, SouthEast, BottomRight, br, DownRight, dr, >
SW, SouthWest, BottomLeft, bl, DownLeft, dl, v
NW, NorthWest, TopLeft, tl, UpLeft, ul, <
C, Center, Centre, .
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The shadow effect only works with colorsets. The color of the shadow is defined by using the fgsh option of the Colorset command. Please refer to the COLORSETS section for details about colorsets.
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As rasat pointed out before, you can also change your font shadow color to the same color as your title bar color.
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Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
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Kde with compiz, but no shadows
Hey together!
Does anyone know how to get shadows with compiz on kde? I use compiz instead of kwin, because its faster for me, but my kde windows have no shadows. Chromium has them, but not my kde windows. I activated the decoration plugin with shadows, but there are no shadows. Any tipps? I use KDE 4.7 with compiz 0.8.8.
Best regards!A couple of questions...
How are you starting Compiz? Or rather, what's the output of
ps axuw | grep compiz
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Follow Up Question about shadow Images
Hello!
A couple weeks ago I asked about drop shadows set with images
and I was
given some helpful
advice. Something came up and I wasn't able to get back to
putting the
information into application until a couple days ago. Forgive
my ignorance
but another question has surfaced. Many here advocate that a
serious web
page maker learn the ins and outs of HTML and CSS. I have
been making
significant headway in both. Some unanswered questions
persist and while I
can ferit it out
through more reading and experiementing, it seems best, for
expedience sake
to ask
the question that is effecting my immediate situation. I have
three images - top, center (this one repeats), and bottom -
that I am trying
to place as a background. Here is the CSS that I
have written for the accasion, based on the advice given here
on this forum.
The problem I am having is applying the div tags in the
correct manner that
will give me the results I am looking for. Here is how the
code renders
through IE 7:
http://www.ors-llc.com/AboutORS/experiment.html.
As you see
the images are not one continuous background image. Obviously
I have
something wrong here; can anyone advise?
Thank you in advance.
#middlediv {
background-repeat: repeat-y;
background-position:center;
background-image:
url(../Sitewide%20CSS,%20Images,%20etc/Images/Background%20Images%20for%20Text%20Area/mai nrepeat.gif);
#bottomdiv {
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-image:
url(../Sitewide%20CSS,%20Images,%20etc/Images/Background%20Images%20for%20Text%20Area/mai nbottom.gif);
background-position: center bottom;
#topdiv {
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-image:
url(../Sitewide%20CSS,%20Images,%20etc/Images/Background%20Images%20for%20Text%20Area/mai ntop.gif);
background-position: center top;
<div id="centercol">
<div class="topdiv"></div>
<div class="middlediv"></div>
<div class="bottomdiv"></div>
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> Thank you! That worked very nicely. Thank you for the
other tips as well.
> Very helpful and appreciated.
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>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> A couple weeks ago I asked about drop shadows
set with images and I was
>>> given some helpful
>>> advice. Something came up and I wasn't able to
get back to putting the
>>> information into application until a couple days
ago. Forgive my
>>> ignorance
>>> but another question has surfaced. Many here
advocate that a serious web
>>> page maker learn the ins and outs of HTML and
CSS. I have been making
>>> significant headway in both. Some unanswered
questions persist and while
>>> I can ferit it out
>>> through more reading and experiementing, it
seems best, for expedience
>>> sake to ask
>>> the question that is effecting my immediate
situation. I have
>>> three images - top, center (this one repeats),
and bottom - that I am
>>> trying
>>> to place as a background. Here is the CSS that I
>>> have written for the accasion, based on the
advice given here on this
>>> forum.
>>> The problem I am having is applying the div tags
in the correct manner
>>> that
>>> will give me the results I am looking for. Here
is how the code renders
>>> through IE 7:
http://www.ors-llc.com/AboutORS/experiment.html.
As you
>>> see the images are not one continuous background
image. Obviously I have
>>> something wrong here; can anyone advise?
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>
>>> #middlediv {
>>> background-repeat: repeat-y;
>>> background-position:center;
>>> background-image:
>>>
url(../Sitewide%20CSS,%20Images,%20etc/Images/Background%20Images%20for%20Text%20Area/mai nrepeat.gif);
>>> }
>>> #bottomdiv {
>>> background-repeat: no-repeat;
>>> background-image:
>>>
url(../Sitewide%20CSS,%20Images,%20etc/Images/Background%20Images%20for%20Text%20Area/mai nbottom.gif);
>>> background-position: center bottom;
>>> }
>>> #topdiv {
>>> background-repeat: no-repeat;
>>> background-image:
>>>
url(../Sitewide%20CSS,%20Images,%20etc/Images/Background%20Images%20for%20Text%20Area/mai ntop.gif);
>>> background-position: center top;
>>> }
>>>
>>> <div id="centercol">
>>> <div class="topdiv"></div>
>>> <div class="middlediv"></div>
>>> <div class="bottomdiv"></div>
>>> </div>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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Pull down View > Show Sidebar. This will give you back the same functionality of iTunes 10.x.x.
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"Shadow" next to cursor question
Hello.
Very basic question I'm sure but I only bought FCE as I couldn't adjust very well to the i-Movie change.....
Anyway, I was happily dragging clips into the Timeline, putting some transition effects on them, adjusting, rendering and moving to the next bit. Very basic but what I needed to do.
Now I must have changed some sort of mode as the cursor now has a small dark shadow to the right of it and I can no longer just grab a chunk on the Timeline and move it or adjust an effect in the same way as before.
Blowed if I can find what I did or even where to start in the manual.
Any help appreciated.
Many thanks.
AlastairI tripped over something similar a while back. I will describe mine and see if it matches yours. I have dozens of clips scattered over a few video tracks. I can select an individual clip then click select it and the 4 way move arrow shows up. I can then drag his clip anywhere. NOW here comes the tricky part.
1 IF you choose to put this new clip on any particular track you will notice either a right arrow ( NOTE how your tracks are split into 2 parts by a long horizontal gray bar) if your cursor is above the horizontal divider the cursor showsa right arrow --OR a down arrow if your cursor is below that horizontal divider.
Right arrow means insert ie it will drop your clip right there and shove everything on every unlocked track to the right
Down arrow means superimpose - it will write over anything on the track you are dropping it onto. Nothing else gets shoved out of the way.
THe fact it showed up in the middle of a project is bogus --- it may have showed up after you added enough effects etc to have not enough space to put your clip neatly in without over writing what is under it . I jsut tried it and i always see the 2 arrows when i move things around .
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Compiz Fusion: Adjusting shadows on popups/menus.
I have drop shadows enabled in Compiz, and they're perfect.. But for some reason, the drop shadow under my menus and popups are always much darker, and they look horrendous.
How do I adjust them?I am running 64 bit arch.
This would probably be best in the 64-bit section then. Double-post there and a moderator can lock this one (and mods, if that was a bad thing to say, please do tell ).
On topic, I really have no idea, but /var/log/Xorg.0.log is generally useful, so try posting that. Maybe someone can go through that and find something interesting from there.
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Compiz -- No shadows with new kernel?
I know there have been random posts about this, but I was wondering if anybody has had any updates, since nobody has said anything for a few weeks.
Basically speaking, I have the problem where nVidia 169.12 + 2.6.24 = no shadows or, occasionally, off-color, faint shadows that you can barely see. All other aspects of Compiz work just fine--and in fact, the shadows worked fine a few weeks ago when I had 64-bit Arch installed. However, I got tired of the hassle that was Java et al., and switched to 32-bit. However, like I said, I have yet to see any shadows at all. All other window decorations work--just not shadows.
Direct rendering, etc., is all working... hardware acceleration is not the issue.
I've recompiled the kernel, used both the Thinkpad kernel (kernel26tp) and the Zen kernel (kernel26-zen), but I still have the same problem. Does anybody have a solution?
EDIT: Added my xorg.conf config file, for what its worth...
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Thu Feb 14 18:20:37 PST 2008
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "record"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
Load "xtrap"
Load "dbe"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
Option "DPMS" "True"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>]
#Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "Quadro NVS 140M"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "DamageEvents" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Redmumba
Last edited by Redmumba (2008-03-10 01:43:31)Sorry to double-post, but here are just a few posts--the last one is exactly the same problem, and neither the OP or I have found any solutions.
http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showpost … ostcount=7
http://bugs.opencompositing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781
http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthre … ght=shadow -
KDE4 question - Built-in effects compared to compiz/fusion icon/emeral
Hello i am new to the forums and i've been using Arch for a few months now, but i have a couple of questions.
I was a hardcore KDE user in the 3.X days, but when 4.0 first launched i was confused and shocked, so i decided to give Gnome a try and its pretty darn nice, and i have been using it for awhile now. I just did a fresh install with KDEmod 4.2.1 to see if things have changed and i'm a bit confused.
1. What is the relationship between the effects in kde4 and the old-school method still used in Gnome (fusion-icon, emerald, compiz-config settings manager)? In gnome i managed to get 99% of everthing working with my Nvidia card on this same pc, but KDE4 i am confused about how to set these options from the CCSM. These options were essential on Gnome to get the effects tear-free and to get video output tear-free.
2. Can I use the old method on KDE4? The old method has 20X more effects to choose from. Any drawbacks to that method?
I won't hesitate to go back to Gnome if i can't get everything working, but it would be nice to use KDE again, as this release seems to be less buggy.
Thanks!DrTankMC wrote:
Hello i am new to the forums and i've been using Arch for a few months now, but i have a couple of questions.
I was a hardcore KDE user in the 3.X days, but when 4.0 first launched i was confused and shocked, so i decided to give Gnome a try and its pretty darn nice, and i have been using it for awhile now. I just did a fresh install with KDEmod 4.2.1 to see if things have changed and i'm a bit confused.
1. What is the relationship between the effects in kde4 and the old-school method still used in Gnome (fusion-icon, emerald, compiz-config settings manager)? In gnome i managed to get 99% of everthing working with my Nvidia card on this same pc, but KDE4 i am confused about how to set these options from the CCSM. These options were essential on Gnome to get the effects tear-free and to get video output tear-free.
They are not the same. Although many of the effects are similar, the native effects are provided by kwin and do not require compiz at all. Hence you can't use ccsm to set these.
2. Can I use the old method on KDE4? The old method has 20X more effects to choose from. Any drawbacks to that method?
Yes you can. In systemsettings under standard applications there is also an option for you to set whether kde should use kwin or another installed window manager (such as compiz) as the standard window manager. You can also use fusion-icon.
The drawbacks are that the integretation is not as smooth. You won't be able to get the same integrated miniature preview of launchers and open apps in the panel and the pager plasmoid doesn't recognise compiz workspaces. If your taskbar as sorted by desktops, that might also be problematic.
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