Transparent terminals?
Ben Steeves
bcs at metacon.ca
Tue Nov 25 12:52:53 UTC 2003
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
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