On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 04:57:16AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Neither the X protocol, nor any existing X11 extension support > translucent windows. Some research has been done by Keith > Packard and perhaps others in this area, however there is no > working code that implements translucent window extension for > X11, and it will likely be quite some time before someone > implements it IMHO. I suspect sometime during XFree86 5.0 > development, or possibly later, as it is likely to require some > largish changes to the infrastructure. > > I would hypothesize that the likelyhood of you implementing this > before the weekend is rather smallish. If you need a quick and > dirty solution which gives the appearance of translucency without > actually implementing it properly, you could do some ugly hack > like some of the window managers do in your application(s).
Doesn't Xrender do a pretty good imitation of this? -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.kde.org - http://www.debian.org - http://www.xwin.org "Configurability is always the best choice when it's pretty simple to implement" -- Havoc Pennington, gnome-list
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