Truly Transparent gnome-terminal

[Alan Cox]

>      * Graphics acceleration (currently Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550, 
> ATI128, Voodoo 3, NeoMagic, Savage and CyberPro)

It does VESA software too - and its generally pretty fast

> I think the window manger/Xserver need true layering support though. 
> Then the Transparent windows would work. Right now, gnome-terminal (or 

Thats why I said look at the directfb X server

> 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.

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