True Transparency for xchat-gnome
My earlier patch for the xchat-gnome userlist setting was accepted upstream some months ago, but sadly, version 0.26.2 is still unreleased, so the code is only in git and didn’t make it into Lucid. Ah well.
For now, have another patch—this one turns the transparency slider in xchat-gnome settings into true alpha transparency, a la gnome-terminal, if desktop compositing is enabled (like with Compiz). As a bonus, it prevents xchat-gnome from crashing if the transparency setting is enabled with Murrine RGBA support turned on.
The PPA for Karmic and Lucid is here. It has both the user list and transparency patches applied.





Thank you for being mindful of your RGBA-rocking users, you rock.