On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 00:49, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > El lun, 25-08-2003 a las 00:37, Michel Dänzer escribió: > > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 23:57, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > > > El dom, 24-08-2003 a las 23:34, Michel Dänzer escribió: > > > [...] > > > > > > > If you want to try a cool alternative X server, I recommend XDirectFB. > > > > It also does real translucency (although that's not yet accelerated on > > > > Radeons) and other nice things. > > > > > > Do you know if there is a plan to add native alpha channel support to > > > all Xfree86 drivers? > > > > I don't know of any such plans, what exactly do you mean by 'native > > alpha channel support' anyway? RENDER extension, translucent windows, > > ... ? > > If I'm understanding the alpha channel utility (32 bpp colors), it's > that it means the opacity of an image so it lets you handle true > transparency, isn't it? > > I mean true transparency directly with xserver-xfree86 drivers instead > of hacks or emulations that takes a root shot to emulate the > transparency effect.
Real translucency requires more than driver support, fundamental changes to the core server such as in XDirectFB or transluXent. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer