Thank you for good answers :) really helpful... I am waiting for the real transparent stuff of (the next) X... now psedo-transparent terminal is workin' just FINE!!!
thanks, guys > >> i m using Eterm and aterm, both can be transparent... (tested with: >> blackbox, fluxbox and KDE 3.x) > > There seems to be a confusion: > > Most modern terminal programs (aterm, Eterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, > etc.) plus some others (Kopete, gdesklets, etc.) implement > "pseudo-transparency". This is achieved by the program grabbing the > chunk of background underneath its window, and redisplaying it as its > own background. The effect is that of a transparent (or translucent) > window, but it is not really transparent: if your "transparent" window > is on top of some other window, it will still show the background image, > and not the window underneath. > > Real transparency, or alpha blending, is a more profound feature that > makes it possible to have any object have transparency. Because it's > implemented by the graphics or window engine (e.g. X11, or Quartz in > MacOS X), it allows any application to have transparency, and it is > "true transparency": if you place a transparent window over another > window, the back window shows through the transparent one, even as it > updates. > > Real transparency does not exist in standard X11. Some other systems, as > the aforementioned Fresco, implement it, but are not very stable yet. > See number 2 in http://wiki.fresco.org/FrescoVsX. > > I understood the original poster was asking about true transparency, and > the answer is "you can't, not in standard XFree86". What you have seen > in the screenshots are pseudo-transparent terminals (which work mostly > OK most of the time, and look nice). > > --Diego > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
