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Frawg
03-14-2001, 01:46 AM
Question:
I'm trying to customize my GNOME desktop so that i can say i have a gui sex.. or a sexy gui... or whatever... see: screen shot (http://www.geocities.com/elfrawgo/screen.jpg) ...ok. see the planet? It has that stupid shadow on the bottom.. the shrine.. same problem.. how do i get rid of that thing????!? Help! I'm going nuts!
For now, tho.. eh eh? like it eh eh?
Aikidoka
03-14-2001, 01:50 AM
your page is not viewable according to geocities.
Frawg
03-14-2001, 01:53 AM
try again, it works. I just clicked it after i read your post.
Frawg
03-14-2001, 01:54 AM
and i looked.. that's odd.. my icons are different..
wait..
i'll change it...
Tyr-7BE
03-14-2001, 01:55 AM
Nah man...it does it for me too. Says that the elfrawgo account doesn't exist either.
Frawg
03-14-2001, 02:01 AM
that's what i experience EVERYTIME anyone on this bbs posts a screenshot. What the hell?
http://www.geocities.com/elfrawgo/screen.jpg
Rakeswell
03-14-2001, 02:15 AM
Geocities doesn't allow direct linking anymore -- they did away with it a few weeks ago. You are better off just including the URL to your image so people can cut and paste (though the error page has the right URL, just cut and paste that).
http://www.geocities.com/elfrawgo/screen.jpg
Anyway, are you talking about the white "trim" around the edges of some of your icons?
If that's what you are talking about, then my guess is that is actually part of the image's background. Either make it a transparent .gif (but I understand that GIMP doesn't support gifs because of copywrite of the file format -- unless you download a plugin from a server in Scandinavia?), or you could simply change the background color on the image to match the desktop color.
That should be easy enough. I'm still trying to figure out Gimp, so I'm no use to you in that department...
Frawg
03-14-2001, 11:14 AM
the background i'm using is transparent. the file extension in *.png. same as the other icons. the Gimp will save it as a *.png no problem. (i have yet to try saving as a *.Gif)
It's totally a shadowing effect, and i think it's applied to all icons... I've been all thru my sawfish settings, and i cant even get SKINS to work, maybe i'm not cut out for making a customized desktop.
frawg