transparent window manager

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Tue Mar 14 20:03:26 CET 2006


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Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 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!
> 
> 
> You'll need to change toolkits first (the xterm hack is really awfull
> btw). But besides the eye-candiness factor, what would be the benefit?

The benefit is having the semi-transparent terminal, which I've found
useful when working in several different windows at once, but the text
is much more readable since it's opaque.

	-brian


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