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| Submitted: Mar 19 2011
Updated: Apr 14 2011
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Description:
This is an installer to enable RGBA successfully on your computer, along with the theme (as in the screenshots).
You will need:
1. An internet connection
2. Ubuntu or any of its derivatives (which supports ppas). 10.04 and 10.10 should be fine.
3. 3d acceleration enabled (for eg compiz working).
Steps:
1. Download the Installer from below, and save it (if your browser tries to open it, try the alternate link.)
2. right click the installer. go to permissions, and make it executable.
3. double-click the installer, click on \"Run in terminal\" when prompted (v imp. you have to run in terminal).
4. A terminal will popup. Enter ur password (user password. it wont show, thats normal). Let it do its job. When prompted, always choose yes (or \'Y\')
5. it should close in sometime.
6. log out and log back in, and go to System>>Preferences>>Appearance
7. Choose \"Black Glass\" as your theme
*the rest of the instructions are for the window borders, which will need emerald. If you dont like emerald, you can skip the rest*
8.Download & install the theme Ambiance Maverick Glass from here: http://tinyurl.com/amglass
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If Nautilus elementary doesn\'t get installed (ie you still have regular nautilus), you may need to do this (mostly NOT needed now since the ppa is back into action):
1. Go to system>>Administration>>synaptic package manager
2. search for \"nautilus\"
3. select it. then Edit>>Force version.
4. select a different version. (1:2.32.0~0ubuntu6~ppa160 worked for me). Click apply. It\'ll ask to downgrade, so do this only if you\'re fine with downgrading nautilus. Then once you get nautilus elementary, make sure you lock the nautilus version just as you forced it.
To get blurring of things behind transparent windows, you must install compizconfig-settings-manager (advanced). Then go to System>>Preferences>>Compiz... and enable Blur. Tweak it a bit to get the perfect blur.
To prevent some windows from getting transparent (like gedit, which lags with transparency for me), you need to add the line (NOT needed now since the installer DOES it for you):
export GTK_RGBA_APPS=allbut:gedit
to ~/.profile. add other apps seperated by commas.
I haven\'t tried this on a fresh install, since I cant get compiz to work in vbox. If there are any problems, letting me know would be really helpful :)
Changelog:
Version 1.1:
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>No gtkrc included. the RGBA settings are in the theme itself now. So the gnome-color-chooser settings (transparency, etc) will NOT affect other themes from now on
>NOT based on overglossed anymore. I've created my own theme (modified an existing murrine theme, MurrinaChrome). So the root windows and the normal windows look almost same now.
>The installer automatically adds RGBA exceptions for a few applications. To see what it does, download the source.
>Made the theme a bit smoother, less opaque lines. Changed the 2nd color from orange to blue.
License: GPL
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