Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > For my two X servers > > display -immutable test.png.2 > > gives me (a), i.e., a semi-transparent view where I can see the desktop > underneath the image.
This is slightly off topic, but this effect really doesn't seem to work that well on Gnome, at least for me. This plot has a completely opaque background: ./examples/c/x01c -dev pngcairo -bg 0000FF_0.6 -o ex1.png display -immutable ex1.png This plot has a completely transparent background: ./examples/c/x01c -dev pngcairo -bg 0000FF_0.4 -o ex1.png display -immutable ex1.png This plot is also completely opaque: ./examples/c/x01c -dev svgcairo -bg 0000FF_0.2 -o ex1.svg display -immutable ex1.svg As is this plot: ./examples/c/x01c -dev svg -bg 0000FF_0.2 -o ex1.svg display -immutable ex1.svg I'm running GNOME 2.41.1 / ubuntu 8.10. Even further off topic, the effect is not that great with the terminal program either. It seems to handle a variable transparency background but you will always see the desktop background, even if there is something else (window, icon, etc) underneath it. So, while I agree that we should support this feature I don't think it is going to be that cool for most linux users for a while yet. -Hazen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
