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I'd like to load a transparent png and have all parts that are transparent show the desktop or underlying windows- is there a Linux image viewer that does this? I'm using Ubuntu and Gnome.
I'm not asking the same as question as this: Linux: image viewer with transparent window?
That helped me find this which works in Ubuntu 10.10: "Open the GNOME Configuration Editor; press Alt-F2 to open the Run Application dialog and type gconf-editor. Click Run. Navigate to Apps->metacity->general. Check the compositing_manager box, and Metacity will immediately restart with compositing!" http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/03/31/enable-metacity-compositing-in-gnome-222/ Your pqiv command works though sometimes there are issues with the screen not getting redrawn. Thanks!
– Lucas W – 2011-09-21T21:44:00.107Might be more issues as well, the windows manager seems unstable now so I'll probably turn the compositing_manager setting off if I'm forced to restart it once more. An 'always in foreground' mode would be nice also in combination with -c -c -c -c (which disables controls over the pqiv displayed window). – Lucas W – 2011-09-21T22:04:49.060
1You might also try
qiv
, also in the repositories, whichpqiv
is based on--I found it worked less well on XFCE, but maybe it works better on GNOME. It does seem to have more features. – Statisfactions – 2011-09-21T22:25:59.680