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ToddAndMargo

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Registered: 2008-04-13

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see through xfce4-notes

Hi All,

Fedora 29
Xfce 4.13
xfce4-notes-plugin-1.8.1-20.fc29.x86_64

For some reason, I can now see a fuzzy image of what is behind my xfce4-notes windows.  It is annoying/distracting.  How can I stop this see through behaviour?

Many thanks,
-T

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: see through xfce4-notes

Is this still with the Adwaita appearance theme?
Do you have anything in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css?

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ToddAndMargo

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Registered: 2008-04-13

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Re: see through xfce4-notes

Is this still with the Adwaita appearance theme?
Do you have anything in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css?

The theme says "default".   That directory is empty

ToZ

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Re: see through xfce4-notes

Just had a look through the source code.

Edit the file ~/.config/xfce4/xfce4-notes.rc and change the Transparency value to 0. You may need to do this while xfce4-notes is not running.

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ToddAndMargo

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Re: see through xfce4-notes

Just had a look through the source code.

Edit the file ~/.config/xfce4/xfce4-notes.rc and change the Transparency value to 0. You may need to do this while xfce4-notes is not running.

I have go like 50 files like:
           xfce4-notes.rc.WNHBJZ

How do I tell which one?

and lots of transparencies

$ grep -i trans xfce4-notes.rc.WNHBJZ
Transparency=7
Transparency=7
Transparency=7

ToZ

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Re: see through xfce4-notes

Make sure that xfce4-notes isn't running. Then change the xfce4-notes.rc file only. That should do the trick.

If that doesn't work, try moving out all of the other files to a temp location and change just the xfce4-notes.rc file then restart xfce4-notes.

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ToddAndMargo

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Registered: 2008-04-13

Posts: 26

Re: see through xfce4-notes

Make sure that xfce4-notes isn't running. Then change the xfce4-notes.rc file only. That should do the trick.

If that doesn't work, try moving out all of the other files to a temp location and change just the xfce4-notes.rc file then restart xfce4-notes.

I logged out, dropped to <ctrl><alt>f2> and manually edited with vi.  Then logged back in.  Did the trick.  Thank you!

It was set to 8.  The three editions of it were each of my three notes windows.