Re: adding transparency to Gtk widgets

[harshavardhanreddy mandeepala <hvreddy1110 gmail com>]

Hi Friends,

Any ideas on this? Any suggestions are welcome.


Harsha





On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:09 PM, harshavardhanreddy mandeepala <
hvreddy1110 gmail com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Is there any way to make Gtk widgets transparent.
>
> By using Murrine theme engine and little modifications to  my gtk
> application i could do.
>
> In my application I added the following lines
>
> For my main window/widget i did the fallowing( as per Cimi's update).
>
> /***
> screen = gtk_widget_get_screen (totem->win);
> colormap = gdk_screen_get_rgba_colormap (screen);
>
> if (colormap)
> gtk_widget_set_default_colormap (colormap);
> **/
>
> It's working fine.
>
> But If I don't use murrine theme engine the effect(transparancy/glassy)
> will not be seen.
>
> I don't want to use murrine theme engine. Instead i want to modify in Gtk
> library.
>
> Is there any update on this.
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Regards,
> HVR