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Arne Vogel wrote: | Diego Zamboni wrote: | |>> i m using Eterm and aterm, both can be transparent... (tested with: |>> blackbox, fluxbox and KDE 3.x) |>> |> |> |> There seems to be a confusion: |> |> Most modern terminal programs (aterm, Eterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, |> etc.) plus some others (Kopete, gdesklets, etc.) implement |> "pseudo-transparency". This is achieved by the program grabbing the |> chunk of background underneath its window, and redisplaying it as its |> own background. The effect is that of a transparent (or translucent) |> window, but it is not really transparent: if your "transparent" window |> is on top of some other window, it will still show the background image, |> and not the window underneath. |> |> | Right, I just emerged Eterm, and it only supports the background image | pseudo-transparency. | Nice feature anyway, but not true alpha blending. It's also not updated | immediately, so the image | "hops" when moving the window. | | As for Fresco, you said it's not stable yet? For the moment I'll rather | stick with a stable | XFree86 4.3.0 than sacrifice stability for some rather superfluous | special FX. Would be good for | bragging to one's (Windoze-using) friends, though! ;-)
A few points here... XFree86 does NOT support true transparency YET. This is a limitation of X not window managers or terminals. A workaround is to use faked transparencies. gnome-terminal, aterm, Eterm, and others support these faked transparencies. All they do is allow your background (wallpaper) to show through. It is really cool, I use it myself, but however if you have a "transparent" terminal on top of an application you cannot see the application behind it, only the background shows through.
Mac OS X and Windows XP do support true transparency. If this makes you jealous, mad, sad, etc. YOU can do something about it. XFree86 is OPEN SOURCE. If you don't like it, you can HELP fix it. That is why Linux is better than the rest in the first place. We don't have to wait for some big corporation to implement a cool feature, we can do it ourselves.
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