Re: Transparancy (was: gnome-terminal awfully slow. :-()

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

Vlad Berditchevskiy wrote:
> Alan <alan ufies org> writes:
>
>
> > > BTW, I don't understand, why it's called "transparency". It just sets a
> > > background picture behind the text.
> >
> > My guess is
> > a) setting the bg picture behind the text makes it look transparent
> >    (except of course for windows behind the window)
> > b) 'transparency' is quicker to say than 'wallpaper image set as the
> >     background of the terminal and adjusted for terminal position and
> > 	 with color/opaquity options' <g>
>
>
> BTW, is it possible to achieve _real_ transparency in Gnome? In other
> unix environments? By now I've seen such feature only on some window
> manager frames, but not in the client area.

you can in other, non-X11 unix environments.


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