lol thanks, just flashy stuff that sucks up cpu usage. It gets pretty slow unless you have a lot of RAM. Open up your terminal and run these command
% apt-get install xcompmgr
note: apt-get is the package manager for ubuntu. it's awesome, basically any program you need you look it up, run apt-get install (program name) or apt-get (package) and it installs everything for you. easier than compiling from source but i guess less customization =/. so yeah.. the point is.. only run this command once to install the program =]
% xcompmgr &
% transset
and you can click on the windows you want to be transparent. run xcompmgr only once everytime you boot and transset as much as you want. if you run % xcompmgr --help it'll give you a list of options, the & option lets it run in the background. if you want to cancel everything just run a
% killall xcompmgr
Once again, it's pretty slow unless you have a gig of RAM or an NVIDIA graphics card. If you want to use a pc with nvidia you can search on google about how to enable hardware acceleration on your xorg file. finally fixed my desktop to how i wanted it though =]

