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	grog	2008-12-12 , 02:49
	Posts: 546 \| Thanked: 85 times \| Joined on Feb 2008 @ Winnipeg, Canada	#29

Originally Posted by qole

grog: Since you seem to be the only other person using this,...

.. have you noticed that sometimes the left panel does not go transparent? If I run rndback from the command line, there are no problems. If I run it from the menu, the left panel sometimes doesn't go transparent on the first run.

No I hadn't noticed that. I tried a few times from the menu & then cranked cron to run every minute, but still no problems. I do notice that it's not quite as transparent as the rest of the screen, but only marginally.

And thanks for the elegant random number solution. I couldn't seem to find a good shell-based way to get a random number, it didn't occur to me to use awk's random number function. Very clever!

My only cleverness is scouring comp.unix.shell to find a one-liner to get me started

(I've been following that group since before google took it over

)

I will put out a new version of the package, with the better random number and a more refined way of setting specific panels to specific transparencies.

That will be greatly appreciated. Then you & I will have a much better product to play with. it might even convince one or two others to join us.

Heck, I've even disabled all of my applets in favour of showing random pics of my wife's & I Carribbean cruise (our first anniversary

)

TX

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