On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Klas Lindberg wrote: > > > > Last I heard, transparent backgrounds were not possible (but this may or > > > may not be true now, as I'm using X less and less...) But RxVT, which is > > > > Take a look at the enlightenment wm (www.enlightenment.org if I'm not > > mistaken). It implements just juch a feature and is a pretty pretty wm > > I am sorry but it does not. This question is so common its even made it to > the Enlightenment FAQs! It is not possible with X (yet), without using > enourmous amount of computing (first getting screen, then transforming, > then using as a background pixmap). Using semi-transparent windows will > not be practically possible until we have a system using alpha-channels. > Berlin (berlin-consortium.org) will be such a system...
And what about the kind of transparency that is used by programs such as xeyes? Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]