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...
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