Transparent terminals?
Ben Steeves
bcs at metacon.ca
Tue Nov 25 13:15:52 UTC 2003
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 09:12, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:52:53AM -0400, Ben Steeves wrote:
> > >
> > > AFAIK, true transparency does not exist in X. What is being talked
> > > about is just a replication of the background image to make it seem
> > > transparent.
> >
> > See http://www.freedesktop.org/
>
> On a quick run-around this site, I don't see this is being
> implemented? I know people have talked about true transparency in X
> for years, but having it working is something else.
Sorry -- I should have elaborated. The extensions being implemented in
the FreeDesktop project will apparently make true transparency
possible. At least such is my understanding.
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