oxygen-transparent

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net

Description:

Oxygen style and decoration with support for transparency (see screenshots).

This is an official branch of the KDE oxygen style. It is kept in sync with the official oxygen style, and adds support of full transparency on the windows.

The style and the decoration are named "Oxygen Transparent" and appear as such in KDE's system settings (in both the applications and workspace appearance pages).

A configuration helper application is included with the style that allows one to configure both the style and the decoration in the same window. It is called oxygen-transparent-settings.

The provided script, named oxygen-setup.pl is used to:

- get the sources (from git)
- configure them
- compile and install the window decoration and widget style.

important notes

1/ The style (and decoration) should work for recent enough versions of KDE4.

Different versions (branches) must be used depending on your KDE version:

- the KDE/4.8 version works with KDE/4.8 (tested), and possibly some earlier verions (not tested)

- the KDE/4.9 version works with KDE/4.9 (tested)

- the master version works with latest KDE, compiled from git. It may not work with any earlier KDE release.

New versions will be added (KDE/4.10, etc.) when the corresponding KDE4 version is out.

One can switch between branches by running the script and specifying the relevant branch:

[quote]oxygen-setup.pl --branch KDE/4.8
oxygen-setup.pl --branch KDE/4.9
oxygen-setup.pl --branch master[/quote]

By default (when no branch is specified), the master branch is used.

There is a number of additional options available for the setup script. To get a list of them, type:
[quote]./oxygen-setup.pl --help[/quote]

2/ Since March 4th 2011, oxygen-transparent has moved to git.

The project home page is:

https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/artwork/oxygen-transparent

You can get the sources directly using:

[quote]git clone git://anongit.kde.org/oxygen-transparent[/quote]

3/ KDE development packages are needed for the compilation to succeed (see below)

Feedback highly appreciated either here on on IRC, #oxygen. (ping hpereira, or hugo)

Downloads

There are automatic builds linked in the download section which have been provided by others (thanks !).

Only the first download (the script) is maintained by me, it always provide the latest svn version of the code.

Needed packages for installation/compilation

(thanks to MezzeForte for providing the list):

- gcc-c++
- git
- cmake
- kdebase-workspace-dev
- libxrender-dev
- libx11-dev

- Depending on the distribution you have the name of the packages might change a bit

- there are usually more packages needed by the packages above and installed via dependency.

For instance,

[quote]sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake kdelibs5-dev kdebase-workspace-dev libxrender-dev libx11-dev git[/quote]

should work on recent enough Ubuntu (thanks to Antelmo for posting. See page5).

Bugs:

Even though oxygen-transparent is not officially part of KDE you can report bugs to https://bugs.kde.org.
You would need to select Oxygen as a product, and Style as a component.

Make sure that "Oxygen-Transparent" appears in the bug title so that it does not get confused with official oxygen bugs.

Posting bug reports at bugs.kde.org is highly recommended rather than posting comments on this page, as it makes my life much easier at bookkeeping.

Last changelog:

8 years ago

7f0a6013:
- synchronized with latest oxygen
- created KDE/4.10 branch
- Warning: if you are using the "master" branch (which targets KDE/4.11), you will have conflicts with oxygen (@KDE) configuration, unless you are also using kde from git repositories
This is due to backward incompatible changes in the configuration code.

83a46b6c:
- attempt at fixing bug concerning window positionning on screen for multi-screen setup
- changes in version policy. New available branches are KDE/4.8, KDE/4.9, and master. KDE/4.10 branch will be added as soon as the corresponding KDE4 version is released. The "stable" branch has been removed.

731ce67e:
- synchronized with oxygen (KDE/4.9)
- fixed crash at exit for virtually all KDE applications

d7bb65f0:
- synchronized with oxygen
- use icon from icon theme for tab-close button
- updated install script to deal with master and stable branch

7a121e2:
- synchronized with oxygen
- fixed compilation issues with too old versions of KDE

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Aerth7
1 year ago

Bespin is better in my opinion.
On my profile is showed how to install Bespin and Oxygen Transparent.

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dutchglory
5 years ago

want to intall on OpenSUSE linux, please make a "general" package. most linux repo's have *-dev packages on mirrors.. or add a package to packman mirror..
http://packman.links2linux.org

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alexandernst
6 years ago

Any news if this project will be updated for latest KDE 4.x or even 5.x ?

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enrique207
6 years ago

I won't update my system until you guys update this. I don't wanna loose it when I upgrade my system. So please give us an update to make it work on kde 4.13 and the upcomings kde releases.

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MoonDragon
6 years ago

This theme causes segmentation fault errors in Nepomuk, akonadi and baloo at closedown.
only using this style triggers the errors, other styles don't. The are many instances of bug reports for this, I have had such errors from KDE 4.10 right up to 4.13.3
I'm not sure what's at fault but no progress has ever been made to rectify this, or am I wrong?
If anyone has a fix, pls let me know, cos I really like this style and decoration

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osinclair
6 years ago

Hi, after upgrading from 4.11.x to 4.13 the style does not seem to work any more. If I choose the style and set the transparency some active windows will be affected but any new application opened (eg Dolphin) is totally opaque

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bfds89
8 years ago

The theme is awesome. Thanks for it. It is really beautifull. The only bugs I found were, watching videos on Kaffeine, wich plays sound only and the picture stays still, and this happens also while previewing the video on dolphin.
If anyone knows how to fix this I would be appreciated. Otherwise I have to choose between the ability to play/preview videos (on VLC they work flawlessly btw) or using the transparent theme. It would be best if I could choose both. :P
Despite this bug, this is the best theme Ive found around. Thanks for your work. ;)

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jacobtey
7 years ago

"some embedded windows (and notably video players) appear as black (and wont update), and therefore need to be 'black-listed' (which is not acceptable for official KDE code)"

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plaristote
8 years ago

Good day !
When the opacity is really low, the text can sometimes become a bit harder to read.
I'm wondering if there is a way to outline the text or to shadow it ? And if not, will there be one, one day ?

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wvcaudill2
8 years ago

Hello, I just installed oxygen-transparent via the kde:unstable:playground repo for openSUSE, and I seem to be having a problem opening the workspace appearance window. Every time I try the system settings windows just disappears.

When I try via the terminal, this is the error I get:
systemsettings: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/kde4/kwin3_oxygen_transparent.so: undefined symbol: _ZN17KCommonDecoration15setAlphaEnabledEb

Do you know how to fix this?

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HugoPereira
8 years ago

Most likely your version of KDE (and notably kde-workspace) is too old with respect to the latest oxygen-transparent. This one is supposed to work only on most recent KDE (from KDE/4.10 branch, or event git master).

See comments above on how you can get older versions (KDE/4.8 and 4.9)

Hope this helps,

Hugo

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wvcaudill2
8 years ago

It works perfectly now, thank you for your quick response!

Excellent work!

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oemardel
8 years ago

when I install the transparent oxygen I got an error message like this:

CMake Error at / usr/share/kde4/apps/cmake/modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake: 198 (MESSAGE):
Could NOT find KDE4Workspace (missing: KDE4Workspace_CONFIG) (Required is
at least version "4.9.80")
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/ usr/share/kde4/apps/cmake/modules/FindKDE4Workspace.cmake: 70 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
CMakeLists.txt: 7 (find_package)

- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
system cmake-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX = `kde4-config - prefix`-release DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE = / home / unix / Downloads / oxygen-transparent / src> & 1 failed: 256

please solution

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HugoPereira
8 years ago

The log indicate that you are either missing the dev packages for kde-workspace, or have a too old version.
As explained in the page, current branch compiles only with kde from git (which will become kde-4.10)
For anything older (KDE 4.8 or 4.9) select the relevant branch as explained above.
Feedback welcome in case you still have problems.

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obedlink
8 years ago

[English]works perfect in Kubuntu 12.10, just a suggestion, the scroll bar of transparency, should show the value from 0 to 100, to put the same value on "Style and decorated windows section."

[Spanish]funciona perfecto en Kubuntu 12.10, solo una sugerencia, la barra de desplazamiento de la transparencia, deberia mostrar el valor de 0 a 100, para poner el mismo valor en "Estilo y decorado de ventanas".

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HugoPereira
8 years ago

Hi,
Agreed, and I'll do so.
However, note that you can
- set the transparency in the widget style
- set the decoration to "use widget style opacity settings" (which disable the slider at the same time).
This way you are sure you have the same value for both. Also for applications that keep opaque windows (such as firefox and all gtk applications) you would get a matching opaque decoration.

Feedback welcome,

Hugo

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kejos
8 years ago

It would appear that even when i'm building oxygen-transparent with --branch stable I keep having an error:
I'm Using Kubntu 12.10 with Kde 4.9.2

[ 14%] Building CXX object decoration/CMakeFiles/kwin3_oxygen_transparent.dir/oxygenbutton.o
In file included from /home/i1szewczyk/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenbutton.cpp:30:0:
/home/i1szewczyk/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenclient.h: In member function ‘bool Oxygen::Client::isForcedActive() const’:
/home/i1szewczyk/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenclient.h:92:51: error: ‘clientGroupItems’ was not declared in this scope
/home/i1szewczyk/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenclient.h: In member function ‘bool Oxygen::Client::hideTitleBar() const’:
/home/i1szewczyk/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenclient.h:119:34: error: ‘clientGroupItems’ was not declared in this scope
In file included from /home/i1szewczyk/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenbutton.cpp:30:0:
/home/i1szewczyk/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenclient.h: In member function ‘bool Oxygen::Client::hasTitleOutline() const’:
/home/i1szewczyk/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenclient.h:365:34: error: ‘clientGroupItems’ was not declared in this scope
In file included from /home/i1szewczyk/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenbutton.cpp:30:0:
/home/i1szewczyk/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenclient.h: In member function ‘bool Oxygen::Client::hideTitleBar() const’:
/home/i1szewczyk/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenclient.h:120:9: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]
/home/i1szewczyk/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenclient.h: In member function ‘bool Oxygen::Client::isForcedActive() const’:
/home/i1szewczyk/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenclient.h:92:66: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]
cc1plus: some warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [decoration/CMakeFiles/kwin3_oxygen_transparent.dir/oxygenbutton.o] error 1
make[1]: *** [decoration/CMakeFiles/kwin3_oxygen_transparent.dir/all] error 2
make: *** [all] error 2

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HugoPereira
8 years ago

Yes. Stable branch is meant for KDE up to 4.8
For KDE 4.9 and later, you need the "master" branch (the default). I realize this is not really coherent with what's in the comments. Will see if I can improve (basically, I need a real versionning scheme, such as KDE/4.8, KDE/4.9, etc ...)

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HugoPereira
8 years ago

Ok. I think I have cleaned up a bit the "version" mess that causes your problems.
There are now three versions:
KDE/4.8, which was the old "stable" version
KDE/4.9, which should suit your needs
master, which should be compiled against latest KDE (from git).
master will be copied to KDE/4.10 when this version of KDE4 is released, and development will go on into the master branch only.
Give a shot at: oxygen-setup.pl -b KDE/4.9, it should work out of the box. Feel free to report any new errors.

Hugo

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tin
8 years ago

Sorry, I only noticed it was not the same error after I posted the reply but thanks for the quick answer.

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HugoPereira
8 years ago

Well. That is not *the same* error.
This new error is due to the fact that ... well ...
oxygen-transparent now compiles only with latest KDE (that will be KDE4.10 in a couple of weeks). Basically (sorry about that), there is no branch at the moment that compiles against KDE 4.9. Sorry.
I'll see if I can fix in the comming days.

In the meanwhile, in your oxygen-transparent source directory, you can make

git checkout 27cd05b33653322ecbde5f66776c173dc3fcc46e^

git checkout -b myBranch

And try recompile. This "should" work, though I have not tested.

Hugo

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tin
8 years ago

I am having the same error when running with latest kubuntu 12.10 and kde 4.9.2. I ran the the setup perl script with the default branch master.

sudo ./oxygen-setup.pl --branch master
[ 16%] Building CXX object decoration/CMakeFiles/kwin3_oxygen_transparent.dir/oxygenclient.o
/home/developer/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenclient.cpp: In member function ‘virtual void Oxygen::Client::init()’:
/home/developer/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenclient.cpp:128:39: error: ‘setAlphaEnabled’ was not declared in this scope
/home/developer/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenclient.cpp: In member function ‘virtual KCommonDecorationButton* Oxygen::Client::createButton(ButtonType)’:
/home/developer/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenclient.cpp:220:18: error: ‘AppMenuButton’ was not declared in this scope
/home/developer/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenclient.cpp: In member function ‘virtual void Oxygen::Client::maximizeChange()’:
/home/developer/oxygen-transparent/src/decoration/oxygenclient.cpp:1365:39: error: ‘setAlphaEnabled’ was not declared in this scope
make[2]: *** [decoration/CMakeFiles/kwin3_oxygen_transparent.dir/oxygenclient.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [decoration/CMakeFiles/kwin3_oxygen_transparent.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
system make>&1 failed: 512

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whattheunk1
8 years ago

Oxygen Transparent is making all windows open in my first monitor. Filed a bug here:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309955

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floopy1962
8 years ago

hey Hugo my man.. can i make root windows to use oxygen-transperent ? few versions back i was able to do it with "kdesudo systemsettings" and pick the theme from there but now it doesn't work... any ideas ?

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