If I install cairo, and set defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSBackend libgnustep-cairo
will transparent windows 'just work'? Truly, thanks for all your help, - Austin On Jun 2, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Eric Wasylishen wrote: > Hi Austin, > On 2011-06-02, at 12:44 PM, Austin Clow wrote: > >> Are transparent windows supported in WindowMaker? >> > No, at least not in the version available in ubuntu. You could file a feature > request with the WindowMaker team if you want. > >> On a mac when you set the backgroundColor of a window with a color that has >> an alpha the window becomes transparent. >> > As David said, this works fine in GNUstep under X11 as long as you use the > default (cairo) backend, and your window manager and X server supports it. I > use Gnome's metacity, and for transparent windows to work you have to turn on > compositing. > > I don't think GS supports transparent windows on Windows but it would > probably be pretty easy to do. > > Eric _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
