Truly Transparent gnome-terminal

[Bryan W. Headley]

Alan Cox wrote:
>>     * Graphics acceleration (currently Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550, 
>>ATI128, Voodoo 3, NeoMagic, Savage and CyberPro)
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> It does VESA software too - and its generally pretty fast
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>>I think the window manger/Xserver need true layering support though. 
>>Then the Transparent windows would work. Right now, gnome-terminal (or 
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> Thats why I said look at the directfb X server
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>>transparency would need to impliment it all over again. So the WM and 
>>Xserver really need to develop a API that apps can use for this.
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> The current core X server implementation is deeply wedded to not keeping
> copies of all the windows. It would probably be easier to add that to the
> kdrive server  however
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How about,


http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~unk6/transluxent/


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