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by Vito on Monday 05/May/2003, @12:15

Okay, so I really like this app, my only problem is it looks like crap under GNOME are they any plans to run the app, under gtk+ thanks.

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Re: GTK?
by anon on Monday 05/May/2003, @12:22

You should be able to run it under KDE. Your GNOME apps will still work.

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Re: GTK?
by Uranus on Monday 05/May/2003, @12:28

that wasn't the question, now was it?

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Re: GTK?
by anon on Monday 05/May/2003, @12:42

It's a good answer though, isn't it? Why not go troll on a GNOME site?

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Re: GTK?
by D. A. Stone on Monday 05/May/2003, @12:42

It should run just fine, you'll need to have QT and KDElibs installed, though, for some things to look right...you don't need the entire KDE package, just the libraries (which depend on QT)...

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Re: GTK?
by fault on Monday 05/May/2003, @14:14

Karamba relies on the krootpixmap class in kdelibs/kdecore, which relies on kdesktop. So.. you need to either make it get the bg from elsewhere, or run kdesktop.

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Re: GTK?
by anon on Monday 05/May/2003, @14:25

This just makes me fall in love with KDE all over again. So simple, so easy, so powerful.

/**
* Creates pseudo-transparent widgets.
*
* A pseudo-transparent widget is a widget with its background pixmap set to
* that part of the desktop background that it is currently obscuring. This
* gives a transparency effect.
*
* To create a transparent widget, construct a KRootPixmap and pass it a
* pointer to your widget. That's it! Moving, resizing and background changes
* are handled automatically.
*
* Instead of using the default behaviour, you can ask KRootPixmap
* to emit a @ref backgroundUpdated(const QPixmap &) signal whenever
* the background needs updating by using @ref setCustomPainting(bool).
* Alternatively by reimplementing @ref updateBackground(KSharedPixmap*)
* you can take complete control of the behaviour.
*
* @author Geert Jansen <jansen@kde.org>
* @version $Id: krootpixmap.h,v 1.14 2002/03/08 18:01:07 rich Exp $
*/

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Re: GTK?
by Vito on Monday 05/May/2003, @14:44

I was not trolling sorry, I was / am not aware of the working of KDE I had no Idea that it was kwin that was causeing the app to show black instead of my background.

I love the application, but am set in using GTK for now.

Thanks for the info guys!

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Re: GTK?
by anon on Monday 05/May/2003, @14:59

You don't understand, KWin isn't causing anything. You can keep running your GTK apps in KDE.

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Re: GTK?
by gtk guy on Tuesday 03/Jun/2003, @20:06

anon: you don't seem to grasp his question.
vito: it *should* work under gnome, I've seen it work under Waimea, so presumably it should work under gnome, assuming the proper libraries are installed. I'm obviously not knowledgebase on kde, but this karamba is one cool piece of software. Still wouldn't make me switch to kde tho (I use Waimea just so you know anon)

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Re: GTK?
by gtk guy on Thursday 05/Jun/2003, @11:37

Has same problem as Vito's under Waimea. Using ESetRoot for the background. Otherwise works fine

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Re: GTK?
by Orclev on Wednesday 07/May/2003, @09:06

I also like Karamba, despite some problems I'm having with it (seg faults when using rss output from slashdot), and it requiring KDE. I don't really have anything against KDE, and I use things like KMail fairly often, I just prefer enlightenment as my window manager (without gnome btw), which is where the problem comes in. Since enlightenment uses its own background daemon, and karamba needs kdesktop to render its background, I can't run karamba under E. I wonder how difficult it would be to get Karamba to fetch the desktop background from something other than kdesktop?

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Re: GTK?
by Richard Moore on Wednesday 07/May/2003, @13:30

It would be easier (and a much better idea) to make enlightenment publish its background in way compatible with KRootPixmap, that way anything in KDE that uses it for transparency would work nicely with enlightenment.

Rich.

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Re: GTK?
by Valentino Crosato Jr. on Monday 12/Apr/2004, @09:04

Is there a workaround for using karamba with enlightenment and still get transparency? I like enlightenment and my only interest from kde is superkaramba

thanks.
Valentino Crosato Jr.

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Re: GTK?
by anon on Monday 12/Apr/2004, @12:45

Not unless you use kdesktop.. you can try gdesklets, which doesn't depend on KDE's background mechanism

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Re: GTK?
by Valentino Crosato Jr. on Monday 12/Apr/2004, @13:52

Ive tried:

1- enlightenment
kdesktop --x-root
superkaramba

# result: still no transparency, black background on superkaramba
# and no enlightenment (left,middle,right) click menus

What is the right way to do it?

thanks
Valentino C. Jr.

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