On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 09:58 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:28 +1000, Amy C wrote: > > Can anyone think of an alternative way to do this (have the penguins > > walk over a screen of my choosing and restore said window after > > they've passed through, without too much flickering? > > You should use compositing of an ARGB pixmap. It will only work with a > compositor but nowadays all desktop use one (Compiz/Unity, > Mutter/GnomeShell, Kwin). Compositing is implemented much more > efficiently than windows shaping.
My bad, I looked at the source, it doesn't use shaped windows. Still, using composited windows per pinguin may be a win. Xav _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com