Transparency

[Jaymz Julian]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 02:14:06PM +0100, Simon Ask Ulsnes wrote:
> Hi there!
> With the compositing manager (xcompmgr) of xserver, it is possible to create 
> transparent windows and whatnot. This is great (should anyone be in 
> doubt ;-).
> But I wonder: Everybody's favourite transparent apps of all times, the 
> transparent console windows, will it be possible to get true transparency 
> with xserver without changing the opacity of the whole window?
> Transparent window backgrounds can be somewhat annoying if the text on them is 
> equally transparent, not to mention the window decorations.
> 
> What I'm basically asking: Is it possible, with xcompmgr, to have different 
> "layers" within the same window with different opacities? I suppose this 
> would require some changes to the toolkits of the windows, or what?

There is an RGBA visual which allows this (so each pixel has it's own
transparancy).  But yes, the apps will need to support this.

	-- jj

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