[waimea] waimea 0.5.0 & mplayer crash

Nick Fotopoulos weasel at beyondnormal.org
Fri Jul 2 17:45:58 EEST 2004


On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 08:28 -0400, Andy Herrman wrote:
> There are a few different X servers out there.  Some have implemented 
> true transparency, others haven't.
> I don't know anything about kdrive, but I think freedesktop.org's X 
> server has true transparency.  The only problem is that most of these 
> alternate X servers are newer and not as mature as XFree or Xorg.  
> However, I do believe transparency is in the list of things they're 
> adding to Xorg.
> 
>     -Andy
> 
> Hagbard Celine wrote:
> 
> >Uhmm, this is quite intresting because trying to solve the problem
> >I've discovered that:
> >
> >1) Other application that tried to resize his window to the maximum
> >crashes waimea (in the log there's waimea sigsegv). The application
> >tried were mozilla firefox and gliv (an image viewer)
> >
> >2) This bug didn't happen with windowmaker
> >
> >3) Using waimea compiled from the source cvs solve the problem.
> >
> >And until now my configuration give no other problems.
> >
> >OT: the full transparency is only in kdrive, then?
> >
> >bye,
> > Hagbard
> >
> >  
> >
Doesn't XFree86 and Xorg support the XTrans extention, or am I mistaken?

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