Philippe ENTZMANN wrote: > If you want the OSD menu to be translucent, you > can either use the RPC approach suggested above to create it by the > process that owns the stage, or you need a compositor. > > Not sure to understand this (mostly because I never understood all the > composite stuff). > I have a simple X server running (without window manager nor desktop > manager). > How can I get a "compositor" running ??
Compositor is a separate application from the Xserver; for your purposes something like xcompmgr might be sufficient, or you could write your own using the XComposite extension. > I think I will have to tell the compositor to "compose" the output of my > background app and the output of my OSD app ? The compositor does that sort of thing automatically based on the window types and window hints (though the exact behaviour would be dependent on the specific compositor you use). Tomas -- To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
