Oh, also...

I don't know if this matters to you (or anyone else, for that matter), but in your dependency request for ubuntu (kubuntu) above:

Quote:sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake kdelibs5-dev kdebase-workspace-dev libxrender-dev libx11-dev git

Git was not available in apt. I had to go into synaptic and search, where I found kgit, instead.

My Bad Forget is git-core, so in kubuntu it should be

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake kdelibs5-dev kdebase-workspace-dev libxrender-dev libx11-dev git-core

It's so frustrating something that I want installed on my KDE so badly is also so monumentally difficult to install for someone that is not familiar with Linux. (Getting unexplained errors every step of the way also does not help). I've followed multiple tutorials on how to get this installed and none of them explain enough to actually get me anywhere. Most did not even explain that I actually had to get git and cmake myself.

I'm no tech savvy myself but this ppa/deb helps.

(thanks Rog)

https://launchpad.net/~samrog131/+archive/ppa/+build/2221633

Well, sorry to hear about the frustration.

Oxygen-transparent is definitely experimental and targets somewhat experimented users.

One of the reasons is notably that the code in question is not 100% robust, and that encountered problems might frustrate un-experienced user even more than the frustration they got while trying to install.

Some day, there will be properly released oxygen-transparent code, that linux distributions should be able to ship, and that would make your life easier.

This requires some serious issues to be fixed first. In the meanwhile, sorry, there is not much I can do to ease your frustration.

(note however, that everything you learned while going through the tutorials is not wasted, and you are less an unexperienced user today, than you were before trying to compile and use oxygen-transparent).

I run kubuntu 11.10 on my eeepc asus 1015 (2gb ram and 320hhd), compositing and all effects on.
Being a newbi, I was wondering if there was a step-by-step tutorial on how to successfully install oxygen-transparent theme.
I'd appreciate your help.
cheers

Updated to new version and now I have transparent videos in SMplayer, ghostly :)

VLC works nice, will test some more and see if I can find myself a proper place to file a bug.

for smplayer, you might need to re-update your "exceptions" (in oxygen-transparent-settings" - background opacity - exceptions button)

for filing bug reports:

https://bugs.kde.org
select Oxygen as a product; widget style as component, and be sure to mention oxygen-transparent in the bug title.

Thanks !

[[email protected] ~]$ oxygen-transparent-settings
QSharedPointer: pointer 0x1dc1f60 already has reference counting
KCrash: Application 'oxygen-transparent-settings' crashing...
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/libexec/kde4/drkonqi from kdeinit
sock_file=/home/hades/.kde/socket-Fedora/kdeinit4__0

I got this .and all info in page 26 .

Just joined to say it is a fabulous piece of work, truly love it.

But... if I want to upgrade to this version should I somehow uninstall the old one before or will it just overwrite it? Doesn't wanna mess things up.

no uninstall;
it will safely overwrite.

thx

Hello Hugo, First thanks for your great script and second is as I know right now nspluginviewer and Kdenlive doesn't work correctly with oxygen-transparent so it's will be good if you add these to "Exceptions" by default. Thanks.

ok. Done, I think. Please double check.

Thanks and sorry for posting comment three times, It happend because I've refresh my browser (Opera) after adding comment.

Will do.
Requires some time though, since I need to modify the code so that user-set exceptions do not overwrite "hard-coded" exceptions. Will give it a shot and keep you posted.
Thanks for pointing this out !

Hello Hugo, First thanks for your great script and second is as I know right now nspluginviewer and Kdenlive doesn't work correctly with oxygen-transparent so it's will be good if you add these to "Exceptions" by default. Thanks.

Hello Hugo, First thanks for your great script and second is as I know right now nspluginviewer and Kdenlive doesn't work correctly with oxygen-transparent so it's will be good if you add these to "Exceptions" by default. Thanks.

Hi Hugo.
Your mod works very fine on my PClinuxOS.
But I have to admit I quickly get into difficulties of use when the transparency is too high, it gets the windows almost unreadable.
However, I like it very much and was wondering if there'll be any chance to have the choice on which part of the windows we'd like to have transparent or not.
For instance, and excuse me to give such an example, the M$ OS windows are only transparent on the top part.
Would there be any workaround to get such choices so it will affect only the chosen part of the window, be it left or right or top or bottom.
Thank you so much anyway for your work.
It's simply excellent. :)
Cheers

Commenting out the whole line worked. Thanks for the help :)

I am trying to get Oxygen-Transparent working on Backtrack 5 R1 KDE.

This happens:

[email protected]:~/oxygen-transparent# ./127752-oxygen-setup.pl
--- oxygen transparent easy setup script

--- checking out source code
cd /root/oxygen-transparent/src
git checkout master
Already on 'master'
git pull
Already up-to-date.
cd /root/oxygen-transparent

--- running cmake
cd /root/oxygen-transparent/build
rm CMakeCache.txt
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release /root/oxygen-transparent/src
-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Looking for Q_WS_X11
-- Looking for Q_WS_X11 - found
-- Looking for Q_WS_WIN
-- Looking for Q_WS_WIN - not found.
-- Looking for Q_WS_QWS
-- Looking for Q_WS_QWS - not found.
-- Looking for Q_WS_MAC
-- Looking for Q_WS_MAC - not found.
-- Found Qt-Version 4.7.0 (using /usr/bin/qmake)
-- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXau.so;/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so
-- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXau.so;/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so - found
-- Looking for gethostbyname
-- Looking for gethostbyname - found
-- Looking for connect
-- Looking for connect - found
-- Looking for remove
-- Looking for remove - found
-- Looking for shmat
-- Looking for shmat - found
-- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE
-- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE - found
-- Found X11: /usr/lib/libX11.so
-- Looking for include files CMAKE_HAVE_PTHREAD_H
-- Looking for include files CMAKE_HAVE_PTHREAD_H - found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found
-- Found Threads: TRUE
-- Looking for _POSIX_TIMERS
-- Looking for _POSIX_TIMERS - found
-- Found Automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4
-- Found Perl: /usr/bin/perl
-- Found Phonon: /usr/include
-- Performing Test _OFFT_IS_64BIT
-- Performing Test _OFFT_IS_64BIT - Success
-- Performing Test HAVE_FPIE_SUPPORT
-- Performing Test HAVE_FPIE_SUPPORT - Success
-- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_W_OVERLOADED_VIRTUAL
-- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_W_OVERLOADED_VIRTUAL - Success
-- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY
-- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY - Success
-- Found KDE 4.5 include dir: /usr/include
-- Found KDE 4.5 library dir: /usr/lib
-- Found the KDE4 kconfig_compiler preprocessor: /usr/bin/kconfig_compiler
-- Found automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /root/oxygen-transparent/build
cd /root/oxygen-transparent

--- compiling
cd /root/oxygen-transparent/build
make
[ 0%] Built target oxygentransparentstyle_automoc
[ 6%] Built target oxygentransparentstyle
[ 6%] Built target oxygentransparentstyleconfig_automoc
[ 13%] Built target oxygentransparentstyleconfig
[ 13%] Built target kwin3_oxygen_transparent_automoc
[ 23%] Built target kwin3_oxygen_transparent
[ 23%] Built target kwin_oxygen_transparent_config_automoc
[ 38%] Built target kwin_oxygen_transparent_config
[ 38%] Built target oxygen_transparent_automoc
[ 39%] Building CXX object style/CMakeFiles/oxygen_transparent.dir/oxygenstyle.o
/root/oxygen-transparent/src/style/oxygenstyle.cpp: In member function ‘void Oxygen::Style::initializeKGlobalSettings()’:
/root/oxygen-transparent/src/style/oxygenstyle.cpp:8424: error: ‘ListenForChanges’ is not a member of ‘KGlobalSettings’
make[2]: *** [style/CMakeFiles/oxygen_transparent.dir/oxygenstyle.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [style/CMakeFiles/oxygen_transparent.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
system make>&1 failed: 512
[email protected]:~/oxygen-transparent#


Anyone has an idea what I can do about this?

PS: since this has occurred with quite a number of people already I'll probably commit an #ifdef to check on kde version in the near future.

It is because your kde (more explicitely kdelibs) version is too "old" for oxygen-transparent.
Just comment out the guilty line in the oxygen code, namely:

/root/oxygen-transparent/src/style/oxygenstyle.cpp:8424

and everything should be fine.

Hugo

Hey, I found out that the blur effect dosent work in RMB menu, when I press it on window decoration on tittle bar.
You can see here what I mean.
<img>http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7007/6400247627_97c2ebbab6_b_d.jpg</img>

Excellent work on this theme!! Thank you doesn't seem to quite cove it :)