Vista-like GTK transparency?

[cameronw]

I am not sure if you can move posts between categories so I just wondered if anybody knew anything about this post?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=570312

[ryno519]

It can be done, but you would first have to check if the user is running a compositing manager that can handle window transparency. gnome-terminal for instance does this I believe. You should download the source for that and see how they check for a compositing manager and set transparency accordingly.