Fw: Transparency for Tomboy

[Alex Graveley]

-Alex

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From: "Daniel Cavalcante" <dcavalcante@...>

Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:04:12
To:alex@...
Subject: Transparency for Tomboy


Hi Alex,

First of all, thanks for creating such a practical and well designed application. Working as journalist, I deal with a lot of notes all day long, and Tomboy helps me find and coherently link different ideas on my otherwise chaotic researches.
 
But since I sometimes work on an old laptop, which displays a primitive 1024x768 resolution, I find myself sometimes wishing to know a little bit of programming, so I could add to your little note taker a sliding transparency control, making it easier to take notes from a browser window that is under it, for instance.
 
So I leave it here as a suggestion. Sorry if it isn't an e-mail subject, but I couldn't find a way to leave in tomboy's homepage.

Greetings from Brazil,

Daniel M. Cavalcante
 

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[Arun Tejasvi Chaganty]

> But since I sometimes work on an old laptop, which displays a primitive 1024x768 resolution, I find myself sometimes wishing to know a little bit of programming, so I could add to your little note taker a sliding transparency control, making it easier to take notes from a browser window that is under it, for instance.
Perhaps you could try using Compiz Fusion, which lets you adjust the
transparency of any window, not just Tomboy notes. It is not
particularly intensive on your graphics card, nor your processor (though
it takes a bit of RAM), and if you use an nVidia or Intel graphics card,
you should have no trouble setting it up. If you're running Ubuntu 7.10
up, it's already installed (but not activated). Simply go to the System
> Preferences > Appearences > Visual Effects menu item, and check
Enabled. Hence forth, <Alt> + MouseScroll changes the transparency of
the window. I hope this helps.

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