transparent window manager

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Robin Haswell wrote:
> 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!

As Olivier said, it's a hack on xterm.  It requires the application to
be modified.  The app needs to use an ARGB window, and you paint the
background with the alpha values corresponding to the transparency you
want, and then paint the text on top of that with full opacity.  At
least that's how I understand it.

	-brian


> 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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