On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 09:12, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:52:53AM -0400, Ben Steeves wrote: > > > > > > 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/ > > On a quick run-around this site, I don't see this is being > implemented? I know people have talked about true transparency in X > for years, but having it working is something else. Sorry -- I should have elaborated. The extensions being implemented in the FreeDesktop project will apparently make true transparency possible. At least such is my understanding. -- 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