[Gllug] Transparent Terminal

[Nix]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Richard Jones moaned:
> On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 10:10:11AM +0000, Nix wrote:
>> And the transparency in the KDE menus doesn't update as the occluded
>> window changes.
>> 
>> Bah. Half-hearted job.
> 
> To be fair this is really a shortcoming in the X protocol, one which
> has already been solved by the incredible Keith Packard:

Indeed, but alas, KDE doesn't use the compositing extension yet, and
there are as far as I know no halfway-stable compositing managers
anyway. (KDE and GNOME will probably end up providing their own.)

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