On Mar 10, 2010, at 11:05 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > There are already > some neat transparent background effects being deployed on the desktop > (e.g., if you move a KDE GUI it becomes transparent so you can see > underneath it) that show this is possible.
I think this might be a property of the window manager rather than the window itself or the application displaying in the window. > Thus, for example, I assume some > file viewers may already allow transparent background options of > their own > so that when that is combined with a transparent PLplot background > you could > see through to the application below. Similarly, I assume there > are GUI > options for GNOME and KDE to allow transparent GUI backgrounds. If there is a window manager independent way of making a window's background transparent then it would be great to use. Not sure how this would work on MS Windows vs X Windows. > But I have > not researched any of this yet. Me neither! :-) Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
