On Sunday 24 August 2003 20.19, J. Javier Maestro wrote: > Hi guys, > > Here, there is a guy that is working on a nice hack for the X windows to > support transparencies like MacOSX: > > http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~unk6/transluxent/ > > He gives a binary (I guess for i386) and source, but the source requires > the XWindow source tree. Now... the question is... 8-) > > How difficult is to rebuild the X server?? XXDDD I mean, library > dependencies, and the make actually working... coz I wouldn't mind > giving that hack a try in my laptop! >
Building XFree86 shouldn't be a problem, it just takes some time :-). Make World and than copy final xc/programs/Xserver/Xtw to /usr/X11R6/bin. Do an 'ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/Xtw' to make sure library dependencies are satisfied. > Anyone with knowledge on recompiling X? XXDD :-) > > Thaaaank you! > > -- > J. Javier Maestro > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://rigel.homelinux.com One thing that strikes me after examine TransluXent source is that some sections of the code is endianess dependent and protected by #if 0 statements (i.e. xc/programs/Xserver/hw/tw/xtw.c). You might need to fix the code to be big endian instead of little endian, or strange result might follow. Grep for C bitshift operators << and >>. // Anders -- ------------------------------------------------------- Anders Lövgren -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]