Have you installed Compiz Fusion on Linux? Here’s a quite useful tip. With it, you can make applications menu transparency. That’s look very cool. This quick tip shows how you can configure menu transparency in Compiz Fusion.
To configure menu transparency, you can execute the following steps:
- Press Alt + F2, and enter “ccsm”, then click Run button.
- Click General Options, and switch to Opacity Setting.
- Expand Window opacities, and click Add button.
- Enter “Tooltip | Menu | PopupMenu | DropdownMenu” in opened dialog box, and setting value “95″.

4 responses so far ↓
1 dre // Nov 16, 2007 at 7:48 am
i been trying to figure that out. thanks. how do you add transparency to other programs. i.e. terminal or pidgen
2 Orange // Nov 16, 2007 at 11:19 am
Have a look at the Compiz Fusion Wiki: http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/WindowMatching
For example you could use “title=Buddy List” and setting value “95″.
3 dre // Nov 16, 2007 at 8:08 pm
sweet got it working thanks
4 Iron Junior // May 27, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Very nice transparency menu and others:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/BlueSpace+II?content=78633
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