[Gllug] Transparent Terminal

[Richard Jones]

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:

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fCompositeExt
http://freedesktop.org/~keithp/screenshots/

Personally I can't wait to use this on my Linux machine.  Mac OS X's
Quartz has done this for ages.

Rich.

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