Plan for transparency?

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Sat Oct 2 23:18:15 CEST 2004


Hi

xfwm4 already supports it, the application just has to set the
NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY atom 

Cheers,
Olivier.


On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 14:02 -0500, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> Since it's obvious that Xfce is taking advantage of the compositor
> extensions of XOrg's 6.8.0 release, I was wondering if there was any
> plan for using its transparency also?  For instance, when I'm using the
> notes panel plugin, I'd like my notes to appear slightly transparent. 
> Or, I'd like to be able to make a window transparent without affecting
> the xfwm4 borders (like an xterm window).  Or, etc.
> 
> How much of this should be controlled by the application in question,
> and how much should be the wm's responsibility?
> 
> Andrew
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