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On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:55:50 -0500
gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On February 4, 2004 11:13 am, Lonnie Olson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> what's xfree written in?  i only ask 'cause i'd like to help on the
> project but only know a few web languages (perl/php etc.)  is it c? or
> c++?  how experienced does someone need to be to actually help xfree
> support true transparencies?


The official XFree86 development is hell to get involved with, which is
mainly why Keith Packard forked and is now doing work at the
freedesktop.org (where you can commit quite easily as I
understood it.)

http://freedesktop.org/~keithp/screenshots/

http://xserver.freedesktop.org/

//Spider



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