Nothing of the kind. I don't know (and don't care) if the way it achieves
the transparency is by treating each character as a window or anything
else. It works fine, stable, extremely fast and only has 3.2M of memory
image (some of it is shared).
On the other hand, I, of course, would laugh at anyone using anything
slower than a dual PII/450 with 128M ram and at least 8M video card as a
"decent X workstation". It is, imho, the minimum useable configuration and I am
quite happy with it. In fact, even that config is not fast enough so I
offload a dozen or so netscape's (different versions) to run on small PII
machines on the network (3 in total).
regards,
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On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Mr. Duck wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Richard Lister wrote:
>
> > True transparency would be very difficult to achieve. You can see a program
> > with a transparent window at
>
> <ObDisclaimer>I know very little about X programming...</ObDisclaimer>
>
> As I understand it, in order to achieve True Transparency in a terminal
> program, each individual letter displayed in the terminal would need to be
> its own shaped window. This would not only (I assume) be a programming
> nightmare, but would also make Eterm's current transparency seem like a
> speed demon..
>
> The coding of this is left as an exercise to the reader.. ;)
>
> --chris.
>
>
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