> > I've designed and built an X server that supports translucent windows;
> > you can read about it at http://xfree86.org/~keithp/talks/
>
> Is the interface that you are using for this implementation described
> anywhere yet?
I didn't write an extension to manage the translucency, I just wrote an X
server that could display translucent windows. I hacked it so that
override-redirect windows were 50% translucent.
If you have ideas on how such an extension should look, I'd like to hear
about them; the paper has some vague notions on how things should work.
In particular, the relationship between translucent windows and the render
extension is complex; the render extension wants to use alpha bits on the
screen for anti-aliasing which kinda conflicts with using them as
translucency bits for the window.
keithp@keithp.com XFree86 Core Team SuSE, Inc.
Received on Wed Sep 27 13:06:57 2000
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