transparent window manager

[Robin Haswell]

Looks great, how is it done? Set a 32-bit PNG as a background or 
something? Is this portable to other applications? If not it should be - 
transparency could actually be usable!

-Rob

Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Robin Haswell wrote:
>> Hm is that a joke or a serious suggestion?
> 
> Oh, this is absolutely serious. There is a hack of xterm using this 
> technique and xfwm4 supports ARBG window very well.
> 
> Look here, the xterm is translucent while the text is totally opaque:
> 
> 	http://www.xfce.org/~olivier/preview/ARGB-xterm.png
> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
> 
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