Aterm and transparency

[Jack Coates]

> Jack Coates wrote:
>
>>Net Llama should have been clearer. That's all that anything working on
>>top of XFree86 can do, as it doesn't do transparency. X.Org's X server
>>does, and many Linux distributions are moving to it, but few support it
>>right now.
>>
>>
> no no no no no noooo.  x.org's X server is almost identical to xfree86
> 4.4.0.  you're probably thinking of kdrive, also known as the
> freedesktop.org X server.  kdrive can do true transparency, x.org and
> xfree86 cannot.  at some point in the future, the extensions that allow
> true transparency may be ported to the x.org server, but until then...

Yes, that is what I was thinking of:
http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/xserver

thanks,
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