On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 22:41, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:36:49PM -0800, Neil Hodge wrote: > > > > I am wondering if any of the solutions mentioned previously in this > > thread are truly transparent (i.e., they show desktop icons, other open > > windows, etc.) or just pseudo-transparent (i.e., they pass through the > > root window only). Thanks. > > AFAIK, true transparency does not exist in X. What is being talked > about is just a replication of the background image to make it seem > transparent. See http://www.freedesktop.org/ Ben -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
