On 2 Jun 2011, at 19:44, Austin Clow wrote: > Are transparent windows supported in WindowMaker?
Wrong question. WindowMaker is a window manager, it has nothing to do with whether transparent windows work, it just controls their positioning and their decorations. Transparent windows are supported in X11 by a combination of the composite and render extensions. Applications draw RGBA windows, which are directed off screen. A compositing manager then draws them onto the display. GNUstep will draw RGBA windows (with the Cairo back end definitely, I think with libart, and I think not with xlib), but for these to be transparent / translucent you must be running a compositing manager. X.org comes with a simple compositing manager, xcompmgr, which should work (it can also draw shadows, but little else). Alternatively, you can run a more complex one, like Compiz, which adds other effects. David -- This email complies with ISO 3103 _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
