On 29-Jun-2002 Kolbe Kegel wrote:
> this is completely off topic for this list, but may be tangentially
> on-topic for this thread. my quesiton is whether there is any facility
> in X for truly transparent windows that will allow them to maybe alpha
> blend the actual windows beneath them with
this is completely off topic for this list, but may be tangentially
on-topic for this thread. my quesiton is whether there is any facility
in X for truly transparent windows that will allow them to maybe alpha
blend the actual windows beneath them with the stuff they're trying to
paint. like a
>
> Thanks for the info, Shaleh. I wasn't quite sure how that stuff was
> being implemented, nor what it would mean for resources -- and since
> mine are few (366Mhz machine with 96MB RAM), I'll skip it for now. In
> the meantime, I've managed to create a very nice looking theme, err,
> style!
>
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 14:41, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> >
> > Some things that were neat/appealing about it were:
> > 1) he had made the window title bar semi-transparent
> > 2) he'd put images into the menu background
> > 3) the menu was semi-transparent, too.
> >
>
> this semitransparency i