Truly Transparent gnome-terminal
Bryan W. Headley
bwheadley at earthlink.net
Sat Sep 13 12:15:14 UTC 2003
Alan Cox wrote:
>> * Graphics acceleration (currently Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550,
>>ATI128, Voodoo 3, NeoMagic, Savage and CyberPro)
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> It does VESA software too - and its generally pretty fast
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>>I think the window manger/Xserver need true layering support though.
>>Then the Transparent windows would work. Right now, gnome-terminal (or
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> Thats why I said look at the directfb X server
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>>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.
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> 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
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How about,
http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~unk6/transluxent/
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