Truly Transparent gnome-terminal

[Mike A. Harris]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

>> transparency would need to impliment it all over again. So the WM and 
>> Xserver really need to develop a API that apps can use for this.
>
>The current core X server implementation is deeply wedded to not keeping
>copies of all the windows. It would probably be easier to add that to the
>kdrive server  however

Yep, whenever work is started on the Translucent Window 
Extension, it will almost certainly begin in the kdrive server, 
as that is Keith's X server experimental development test bed.

For those that don't know what kdrive is, it is an X server that 
Keith designed for tiny embedded devices such as the iPaq PDA.  
The source code of which is part of XFree86, and if people are 
interested in playing with it, the Red Hat XFree86 src.rpm has 
special support to build kdrive optionally, by enabling the RPM 
macro in the spec file "with_kdrive" and rebuilding.  kdrive is 
very minimal and requires no configuration.

Hopefully some of you will find this info helpful for something
new to play around with.  kdrive is slick.  ;o)

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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat