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The answer might be as simple no, but using Ubuntu Tweak I made the borders of my windows transparent as shown here: enter image description here

However, the window buttons and window title are also transparent, making them look out of place. Can I make the close, minimise, and maximise buttons as well as the window title non-transparent?

RolandiXor
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William
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This would be possible with Emerald (which is no longer maintained), but it is not possible with metacity/gnome-window-decorator/unity-window-decorator.

You can file a wishlist bug though.

Alternative:

There is a PPA that contains a fixed version of emerald (fixed as in - it fixes a segfault that some users got):

ppa:malteworld/compiz

This PPA is for 11.04, so you have to download the .debs for 11.10:

emerald_0.8.8-0ubuntu0~malteworld1_amd64.deb (267.0 KiB)
libemeraldengine-dev_0.8.8-0ubuntu0~malteworld1_amd64.deb (93.1 KiB)
libemeraldengine0_0.8.8-0ubuntu0~malteworld1_amd64.deb (88.9 KiB)

(for 64bits or:)

emerald_0.8.8-0ubuntu0~malteworld1_i386.deb (262.0 KiB)
libemeraldengine-dev_0.8.8-0ubuntu0~malteworld1_i386.deb (79.4 KiB) libemeraldengine0_0.8.8-0ubuntu0~malteworld1_i386.deb (78.5 KiB)

(for 32bits)

For more info, see this Ubuntu Forums thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11379530

RolandiXor
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If you design a theme yourself, you can do things like this in metacity version 2 themes.

Update:

Here is an example: http://mikegraydesign.com/files/metacity-theme-2.xml

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