On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 15:32, gabriel wrote: > since i switched to linux on the desktop a while back, there's been one thing > that i've been thinking about consistently: isn't there a way to make > any/all apps in X semi-transparent? > > my thinking being that i'd be able to have kmail open here, with gkrellm on > the right, but not _totally_ covering the text underneath... there has to be > a way to assign a 50% alpha to arbitrary windows... right? if the icons can > be 32bit, why not entire apps? well maybe not, considering that most > transparencies i've seen in linux are "faked" by reproducing the background > image in the "transparent" window. > > so what's the deal with (semi)transparencies? why are they so hard to make? > or is there just a lack of interest in the community for such a feature? > this isn't meant as a bitch session, just a curiosity. it simply can't be done without some help from the X server. that means the xserver has to have support for transparency. and the xserver doesn't have support for transparency yet.
if you look at windows (2000 or xp), there the operating system (windows) supports transparency. you simply call a function like setTransparency(50) and you get 50% transparency. but as i said there isn't anything like that in X. gabor -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
