Re: Nautilus and Background control

[Joshua Adam Ginsberg <joshg myrealbox com>]

>From my understanding of things, transparency requires X to support
alpha channels. I'm not exceptionally familiar with the inner workings
of XFree86 or any of the other X servers, but I believe this would
require an extension that creates a mild deviation from the X protocol
(somebody like Havoc would probably be better to comment on that).

With projects like XOuvert trying to bring this sort of
(usability-improving) eye candy to X, perhaps we will see it. But as
Havoc said, you need to petition your friendly neighborhood XFree86
developer.

-jag

On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 12:44, Alan wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:20:00PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Beny Spensieri Jr">
> > 
> > > Ok, now you've lost me.  How is it that gnome-terminal can have a
> > > transparent background, yet the Nautilus desktop which apparently is
> > > simply a big window can't?
> > 
> > gnome-terminal is faking it - you'll see that it's just showing the
> > background, not anything beneath it.
> 
> Speaking of this, is there any chance of this changing and getting
> "true" transparancy/translucency?  I've used os/x a bit and while seeing 
> a terminal under a terminal isn't all that helpful to me, seeing other
> windows under your current terminal is quite helpful.  I'm guessing that
> this is a restriction put on by X itself though, but figured I'd ask.
> 
> alan
> 
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