On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:14:29PM +0100, Sam Mason wrote: > Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > It seems to work in my version of X.
I played with this a few weeks ago (thought of modifying xosd) and, I don't think there's any true translucency but some trick that works half of the time because X never fills the window with the background colour. What if the window in the background is changed? I even looked up some KDE source code for translucent menus and what they did is grab the screen area normally and then combine the menu and the grab with Xrender for the effect. And there's no reason why window translucency shouldn't work with normal X drawing primitives as well because you _need_ a backing store for the (visible areas of the) translucent window. (X -version => 4.2.1.1; I refuse to upgrade to 4.3 thanks to Xkb keymaps that are not fully accessible with xmodmap. Dumping the current keymap before upgrading might work but I'm not eager to try..) -- Tuomo
