Bug 148839

Summary:	Tranparent background comes and goes
Product:	[Unmaintained] kweather-kde3	Reporter:	rick miles <frmrick>
Component:	general	Assignee:	geiseri
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Slackware
OS:	Linux
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Description rick miles 2007-08-15 02:57:18 UTC

Version:           2.1.0 (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Slackware Packages
OS:                Linux

Sometimes I have transparency, sometimes I don't, Nothing else has been changed, I just lose the transparent background, no X configs have been changed, wallpaper has not been changed. Panel and moonphase remain transparent. I do not have anything in kweather config window for setting tramsparency, should I? What would kweather.rc line look like if I did/had to edit it manually?

Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2007-08-15 11:46:50 UTC

Apart the problem already known, this kind of reports looks like question to be asked in a forum.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146007 ***

Comment 2 rick miles 2007-08-15 21:27:24 UTC

I had a bit of a play here and have observed the following on my desktop which is set to transparent with transparency all the way to the left (max minimum):
(1) kweatherservice grabs the area of background on which it lands when added to panel,
(2) it keeps this original section of the background no matter where it is moved on the panel,
(3) I can remove a kweather service applet which has lost its transparent attributes and add a new kweatherservice applet and it will have transparent background again just as in item (1) above,
(4) upon start up the panel is grey before it becomes transparent,
(5) kweatherservice appears on the panel before it becomes transparent and assumes transparency over a grey background,
(7) because kweatherservice retains the initial background it lands on it, will continue to remain transparent with a grey background no matter where I move it to on the panel.

I'd bet that if the panel was not grey but instead transparent (i.e. with background)when kweatherservice started up, that it would appear transparent having assumed the section of background upon which it lands this startup.
 
Perhaps this helps.