On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:31:04PM +0100, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: > I've been playing with xlock a little bit and I'm wondering why the > root window animations do not work in Ion (with transparent empty > frames). Is there any particular restriction?
"Transparency" is an awful kludge that isn't really transparency at all. What those settings do is make the window use the parent window's (root's in case of unnested wm frames) background pixmap (or pixel if pixmap is not set) whenever the window background needs to be redrawn. To get proper transparency/translucency, you'd need the FDO X server (see http://xserver.freedesktop.org/) and make use of its Damage and Composite extensions. But ATM, AFAIK, the server doesn't support any decent graphics cards so it is pretty pointless. -- Tuomo
