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Linux Mint Question- Windows Suddenly Go Transparent
None | March 1 2017 | Me

Posted on 02/28/2017 9:56:30 PM PST by Bob434

OK- installed Linux Mint Cinnamon 18.1 recently, everything was working fine- then recently what has been happening is I'll be working along fine, and then for some reason, my windows go transparent- Icons are still opaque on desktop- but everything I open, card games, Internet browser, notepad etc are all transparent- even the shutdown dialogue is- Can't find any info online linux forums about this behavior- Any thoughts on how to fix it?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: computer; linux; mint
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To: whodathunkit

Yeah- i haven’t changed any defaults in nemo- The icons on the desktop are full opacity, it’s just that any window I bring up goes transparent- not sure hwat is triggering it- I suspect it’s the ‘peek’ feature where you have a window open and want to see desktop without actually minimizing the open window- just hover the mouse over a taskbar- and it will ‘peek at the desktop’ by making the open window transparent’

If it is that=- i have no idea how to fix it- or where the peek feature is even located


21 posted on 03/01/2017 9:07:41 AM PST by Bob434
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To: AppyPappy

you wake after sleep problem is related to the video card driver- sounds like you have the default vid driver- that happened to me until i updated to the actual NVidia driver- now i can resume from sleep perfectly-


22 posted on 03/01/2017 9:09:05 AM PST by Bob434
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To: a413

[[The leader of Linux Mint, Clement Lefebvre, said in 2009, that he doesn’t want your money if you support Israel.]]

WOW! I was not aware of that- What a scumbag he is then-


23 posted on 03/01/2017 9:15:24 AM PST by Bob434
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To: SanchoP

i actually did try that along with quite a number of other distros- even got into manjaro- (A masochists dream come true)- Tried Debian as well- just too much technical knowhow for many of them for my taste at this stage of the game- I don’t mind havign to have a little knowhow needed- but soem distros are just geekier than others- in a techie manner i mean- and not what i want- I couldn’t get PCLinuxOX to work right, and it just seemed kinda slow- (and i have a massive system- ) I eventually settled on mint as it provided best of both worlds— a little knowhow needed- but not so much that i would be a slave to it trying to find fixes online all the time

I like Linux, but the support- to be honest- is very hard to figure out- they talk way above my pay level in the forums when discussing problems and solutions- They know what they are talking about of course- but folks like me are lost- I’ve really messed up things badly trying to follow ‘instructions’ for some issues- fortunately linux reinstalls rather quickly- and I’ve now gotten into doing bakcups with macrium reflect which will save tons of time if everything needs a reinstall-


24 posted on 03/01/2017 9:23:50 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

It’s an old laptop that I only use on the stereo so it doesn’t matter.


25 posted on 03/01/2017 10:21:47 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

bump


26 posted on 03/01/2017 10:46:48 AM PST by WhirlwindAttack (The right to swing your arms ends at my nose. I've had enough of this.)
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To: WhirlwindAttack; All

Is there an ubuntu distro with a start menu similar to cinnamon? I do not like side taks bars or top task bars- tried em but never got used to them- much prefer the taskbar/start menu of cinnamon (I know oyu can ‘add in cinnamon’ but that’s kinda iffy-


27 posted on 03/01/2017 11:27:47 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

I don’t mean just the app launcher to bottom- i’d like everything on bottom- start button, launcher etc- like in cinnamon


28 posted on 03/01/2017 11:35:51 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434
My favorite computer joke:

Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two slots in the top, a control knob, and a lever. "What do you think this is?"

One advisor, an Electrical Engineer, answered first. "It is a toaster," he said. The king asked, "How would you design an embedded computer for it?" The advisor: "Using a four-bit microcontroller, I would write a simple program that reads the darkness knob and quantifies its position to one of 16 shades of darkness, from snow white to coal black. The program would use that darkness level as the index to a 16-element table of initial timer values. Then it would turn on the heating elements and start the timer with the initial value selected from the table. At the end of the time delay, it would turn off the heat and pop up the toast. Come back next week, and I'll show you a working prototype."

The second advisor, a software developer, immediately recognized the danger of such short-sighted thinking. He said, "Toasters don't just turn bread into toast, they are also used to warm frozen waffles. What you see before you is really a breakfast food cooker. As the subjects of your kingdom become more sophisticated, they will demand more capabilities. They will need a breakfast food cooker that can also cook sausage, fry bacon, and make scrambled eggs. A toaster that only makes toast will soon be obsolete. If we don't look to the future, we will have to completely redesign the toaster in just a few years."

"With this in mind, we can formulate a more intelligent solution to the problem. First, create a class of breakfast foods. Specialize this class into subclasses: grains, pork, and poultry. The specialization process should be repeated with grains divided into toast, muffins, pancakes, and waffles; pork divided into sausage, links, and bacon; and poultry divided into scrambled eggs, hard- boiled eggs, poached eggs, fried eggs, and various omelette classes."

"The ham and cheese omelette class is worth special attention because it must inherit characteristics from the pork, dairy, and poultry classes. Thus, we see that the problem cannot be properly solved without multiple inheritance. At run time, the program must create the proper object and send a message to the object that says, 'Cook yourself.' The semantics of this message depend, of course, on the kind of object, so they have a different meaning to a piece of toast than to scrambled eggs."

"Reviewing the process so far, we see that the analysis phase has revealed that the primary requirement is to cook any kind of breakfast food. In the design phase, we have discovered some derived requirements. Specifically, we need an object-oriented language with multiple inheritance. Of course, users don't want the eggs to get cold while the bacon is frying, so concurrent processing is required, too."

"We must not forget the user interface. The lever that lowers the food lacks versatility, and the darkness knob is confusing. Users won't buy the product unless it has a user-friendly, graphical interface. When the breakfast cooker is plugged in, users should see a cowboy boot on the screen. Users click on it, and the message 'Booting UNIX v.8.3' appears on the screen. (UNIX 8.3 should be out by the time the product gets to the market.) Users can pull down a menu and click on the foods they want to cook."

"Having made the wise decision of specifying the software first in the design phase, all that remains is to pick an adequate hardware platform for the implementation phase. An Intel Pentium with 48MB of memory, a 1.2GB hard disk, and a SVGA monitor should be sufficient. If you select a multitasking, object oriented language that supports multiple inheritance and has a built-in GUI, writing the program will be a snap."

The king wisely had the software developer beheaded, and they all lived happily ever after.

-- and that's my basic philosophy on PCs in general and Linux in particular. I don't do geekspeak at all.When I get frustrated it's time to go fishing.

29 posted on 03/01/2017 1:20:06 PM PST by SanchoP
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To: SanchoP

lol that’s funny- I geek speak a tiny bit and that’s as far As I’m going with it-


30 posted on 03/01/2017 2:39:23 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434
In 18.1:

Systems Settings > Preferences > Windows > Titlebar > Actions > Action on title bar with mouse scroll

I'd try setting that to one of the non-Nothing settings, then setting it back to Nothing.

31 posted on 03/01/2017 4:31:24 PM PST by TChad (Propagandists should not be treated like journalists.)
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To: Bob434
FWIW Clem LeFebvre later backed away from his anti-Israel statement.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2170903/software/q-a--clement-lefebvre--the-man-behind-linux-mint.html?page=2

I think the one thing I regret the most is giving people the impression I cared about politics and getting involved in something that had nothing to do with me. I hurt some people by doing that and that's something I'll always regret. I try and apologize as much as I can to whoever queries me on that and reassure them that absolutely everyone is welcome to join me, no matter where they're from, who they are and what their political beliefs might be. Dividing topics such as these are an awful waste of time.


32 posted on 03/01/2017 4:48:52 PM PST by TChad (Propagandists should not be treated like journalists.)
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To: TChad; All

Thanks- I’ll give that a try- I think i may have found hte problem though- the transparency ‘gets stuck’ when i click on the ‘show desktop’ icon- then if i try to maximize the open page, or program, it’s transparent- but if i click the ‘show desktop’ icon again, it makes the programs and pages opaque again

This is kind of odd behavior- Linux mint 17 didn’t have that issue-

As for Clem and folks like him, The problem i have with someone coming out later and ‘apologizing’ is that they revealed their biases- then took heat for their bias, and only then decided to apologize to try to ‘correct’ a situation that was caused by the heat- I seriously doubt he has changed his mind on being Anti-Israel- and rather is just trying to not hurt the Linux mint brand now- Maybe He’s sincere and has changed his mind about Jews- but usually one doesn’t change their biases about some groups so quickly- and the things they said about a group reveal what’s in their heart-


33 posted on 03/01/2017 10:01:10 PM PST by Bob434
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