Re: how to have a transparent/no background in desktop of gnome 2.6.1

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Subject: Re: how to have a transparent/no background in desktop of gnome 2.6.1
From: William Ballard <40521.nospam@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 01:34:30 -0700
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On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 12:57:37PM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote:
> I want to run mplayer in rootwindow and I think I have have to disable 
> the background of gnome desktop. I am using Debian/unstable with gnome 
> 2.6.1 and could not find any way to disable the gnome background. Can 
> anyone give some ideas?

Metacity (I think) actually creates a window that exactly covers the 
dimensions of the rootwindow.  That's all I know.  I guess you could 
target apps to run in that instead of the rootwindow.

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