Re: Setting transparent xterms
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Klas Lindberg wrote:
>
> > > Last I heard, transparent backgrounds were not possible (but this may or
> > > may not be true now, as I'm using X less and less...) But RxVT, which is
> >
> > Take a look at the enlightenment wm (www.enlightenment.org if I'm not
> > mistaken). It implements just juch a feature and is a pretty pretty wm
>
> I am sorry but it does not. This question is so common its even made it to
> the Enlightenment FAQs! It is not possible with X (yet), without using
> enourmous amount of computing (first getting screen, then transforming,
> then using as a background pixmap). Using semi-transparent windows will
> not be practically possible until we have a system using alpha-channels.
> Berlin (berlin-consortium.org) will be such a system...
And what about the kind of transparency that is used by programs such as
xeyes?
Remco
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