On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 03:39:58PM +0200, Tuomo Valkonen 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.
So the transparency in Ion is also implemented this way? Then it's clear, why it doesn't work. Is it somehow possible to put empty frames' headings in a kind of shadow mode like most "window-bases" wms can do, so that the real background shines through? -- Nikolai Prokoschenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
