> > 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! >
for the curious the psuedo transparent applications work by taking the background image and blending it into their own image. The Xft lib does some nifty optimizations to this. Blackbox has never been about eye candy and it is this reason more than anything else we are not interested in adding the new transparency ideas.
