XFree is written in C. It's a large beast.

I think Keith Packard's X Serve has true transparency:

        http://freedesktop.org/~keithp/screenshots/

Look at it at:

        http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/xserver

I seem to recall that ebuilds exists for this project. However, doesn't
work with the NVidia binary drivers :(

Canek

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 12:55, gabriel wrote:
> On February 4, 2004 11:13 am, Lonnie Olson wrote:
> > Mac OS X and Windows XP do support true transparency.  If this makes you
> > jealous, mad, sad, etc.  YOU can do something about it.  XFree86 is OPEN
> > SOURCE.  If you don't like it, you can HELP fix it.  That is why Linux
> > is better than the rest in the first place.  We don't have to wait for
> > some big corporation to implement a cool feature, we can do it ourselves.
> 
> what's xfree written in?  i only ask 'cause i'd like to help on the project 
> but only know a few web languages (perl/php etc.)  is it c? or c++?  how 
> experienced does someone need to be to actually help xfree support true 
> transparencies?
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