Re: [Plplot-devel] -bg with alpha gives strange overlay effect on x02c

2010-03-18 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: On 2010-03-18 16:26-0400 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: [...] From what I have read so far, having nicely window-manager independent transparent backgrounds for the xcairo (and xwin and possiblt qtwidget) devices would

Re: [Plplot-devel] -bg with alpha gives strange overlay effect on x02c

2010-03-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-03-18 17:55-0400 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: On 2010-03-18 16:26-0400 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: [...] From what I have read so far, having nicely window-manager independent transparent backgrounds for the

Re: [Plplot-devel] -bg with alpha gives strange overlay effect on x02c

2010-03-18 Thread Hazen Babcock
Alan W. Irwin wrote: For my two X servers display -immutable test.png.2 gives me (a), i.e., a semi-transparent view where I can see the desktop underneath the image. This is slightly off topic, but this effect really doesn't seem to work that well on Gnome, at least for me. This plot

Re: [Plplot-devel] -bg with alpha gives strange overlay effect on x02c

2010-03-18 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Hez, On Mar 18, 2010, at 21:16 , Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: The checkerboard background seems to be a semi-standard approach for viewing transparent images (Gimp uses something similar). I'm not sure it is a good idea for our interactive devices though, as it makes it very difficult to

Re: [Plplot-devel] -bg with alpha gives strange overlay effect on x02c

2010-03-18 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: On 2010-03-18 17:55-0400 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: On 2010-03-18 16:26-0400 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: [...] From what I have read