On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 08:39:47PM +0200, in the study, with the lead pipe, phriedrich 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm writing a small and silly program displays the title of the song
> xmms plays.
> 
> I'm using ecore, evas and etox for that.
> 
> Is there a way to have a window with a transparent background with evas
> now? 
> Even semi-transparency as Eterm (and other) already have would be enough.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Friedrich
> 
> Post Scriptum: Nowadays I use a really dirty hack with a shell-script and
> xmms' songchange-function to have a transparent, sticky Eterm on all of my
> screens to show the songtitle...works reliable, but isn't a nice way to
> do...
You'll want to use esmart for this, esmart-x11-trans (or something like that).

It's a dirty hack that rasterman hates, but it's all we have at the moment. :)

For example usage, look in erss or elapse. (among others)
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