On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:28 +1000, Amy C wrote: > Can anyone think of an alternative way to do this (have the penguins > walk over a screen of my choosing and restore said window after > they've passed through, without too much flickering?
You should use compositing of an ARGB pixmap. It will only work with a compositor but nowadays all desktop use one (Compiz/Unity, Mutter/GnomeShell, Kwin). Compositing is implemented much more efficiently than windows shaping. Xav _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com