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Engage DockBar.

9 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/engage-dockbar.46567/

ray|raven
ray|raven Original post #1
Jan 16, 2007 at 5:46 PM
Hi,
i installed engage on ubuntu 6.06 dapper.
I fiddled around with the options to try and make it semi-transparent so it looks like the os x dock.

Could some one give me the method to make it semi-transparent?

Regards...
Ray
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mehulved #2
Jan 16, 2007 at 6:45 PM
Try this *www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=307163&postcount=19
ray|raven
ray|raven #3
Jan 16, 2007 at 6:49 PM
@tech_your_future
I managed to get a fully transparent dock.
I want to have a semi-transparent dock like in os x.
Could you help?

Regards...
ray
eddie
eddie #4
Jan 17, 2007 at 12:00 AM
I have never used it but have you tried starting it from a terminal window with "--help"? Usually it gives you lots of options that you can set yourself. There should be one for transparency as well.
ray|raven
ray|raven #5
Jan 17, 2007 at 4:36 PM
It was the terminal i used to get it to be transparent.
Engage has an option to set background color and on enlightment website they said to give "#00000000" to get a transparent background.

However regardless of what i give as value it defaults to a transparent bkg once i use that option.

Regards...
ray
subratabera
subratabera #6
Jan 17, 2007 at 11:08 PM
Why don't you try Dreamlinux multimedia Edition 2.2. It has the most beautiful linux desktop I have ever seen. It has engage dock installed as default and has a nice set of icons and OS X look...BTW it is XFCE based distro and very fast indeed with a nice collection of apps...

*dreamlinux.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal/arquivos/mini-desktop2.jpg
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mehulved #7
Jan 18, 2007 at 12:23 AM
His problem is not transparency. He's having that all right. He wants it to be semi-transparent, from what I get.
rayraven, i will try it out when I boot back into ubuntu in a couple of days and see if I can find anything.
eddie
eddie #8
Jan 20, 2007 at 6:39 PM
If you start engage from terminal using the option "--help"...what output do you get?
hellknight
hellknight #9
Feb 7, 2007 at 4:49 PM
subratabera said:
Why don't you try Dreamlinux multimedia Edition 2.2. It has the most beautiful linux desktop I have ever seen. It has engage dock installed as default and has a nice set of icons and OS X look...BTW it is XFCE based distro and very fast indeed with a nice collection of apps...

*dreamlinux.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal/arquivos/mini-desktop2.jpg
Click to expand...

Really dude, Dream Linux rocks, it also has all the multimedia support available