how to set vim transparent on ubuntu 10.04

Question

i try to set vim(VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2) transparent via the right click setting menu, and it works.

But the background just show up the desktop, not the pdf or the browser which under it.

My enviroment:

• ubuntu 10.04
• vim 7.2

Is there anything about ubuntu GUI knowledge that i should know before i do such things?

Answer 1

gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool true