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Here's my situation:

I run Compiz Desktop Cube, with Skydome enabled, on Kubuntu 10.10. I would like to 'disable' or make the KDE wallpaper completely transparent, making the Skydome my 'wallpaper replacement'.

Is there any way to do this?

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I'm not sure if it will work 100% perfectly, but you could use the Opacity, Brightness and Saturation Plugin to achieve something similar.

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All you need to do is to add the desktop as a window to opacify and set it to 0%. (This answer supposes you have knowledge of configuring compiz plugins).

To show desktop icons, you will need to have the folder view plasmoid enabled.

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Out of curiosity, what gtk/metacity theme are you using in that screenshot? – Another Googler Mar 14 at 15:16
@AnotherGoogler I don't remember what the metacity theme was, but the GTK theme was Aurora, which was never really kept up to date for GTK3, so it might be hard to find. – RolandiXor♦ Mar 14 at 16:30