wmperry(a)aventail.com (William M. Perry) wrote: > And I don't think it does anything cool like use shaped windows, but > actually queries the root window for information every time you move the > xterm, etc. They /have/ to use uncool hacks to achieve the transparency, actually. X is not designed to allow this easily (it doesn't have alpha layers). For instance, to make an XTerm really transparent, one would have to reshape the window around the text each time it is modified. A very reliable way of making your X server consumne 150% of your CPU ;-)

Anyway, I don't think that people wanting their applications to explode violently at their eyes are the people we want to attract. At least not in priority...