Re: true transparency

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  > You cannot do this, since X does not let you get the contents of the
>  > obscured areas of a window.
>  
>  I *DID* say wizardry.. I am aware of that limitation, however if
>  the application could dynamicly resize it could grab the area, then
>  expand and use that captured area.

This will not work.  There is no way to know when the other client
will finish repainting itself, or when the server will actually get
the requests and finish processing them.

It can't be done properly with X as it is.  Period.  Sorry.

  Federico