aaj15_at_dial.pipex.com wrote:
>
> On 24 Sep, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I heard some rumours that some "alien" (i.e. non-fvwm2) window managers are
> > advancing and producing new interesting features. I always assumed that
<SNIP>
> As I understood it, it wasn't quite that clever - simply that if you
> set up the root window with Esetroot and used ETerms, the background to
> the ETerm was the region of the root window image the Eterm was over.
> This gives 'transparency to the root window' but not to any other
> underlapping window contents. I assume this is done by Esetroot setting
> an environmental variable to the root window image and the ETerms,
> which are said to be rxvt derived picking it up and using their own
> coordinates to window the relevant part. I also gather that the effect
> fails if you change the root window image which tends to support it
> being something like this.
> It may be the case that the interaction is purely between ETerm and
> ESetroot, in which case, the fvwm2 setup is irrelevant.
>
> Fun, certainly, but not as useful as anything approaching true
> transparency could be.
Think about that for a minute - would you really want true
transparency? It seems to me that being able to see the output of even
two or three windows which happened to be stacked would be messy at
best. Certainly E could use some polishing up but I think that they
have implemented pseudo transparency pretty well. Just my $.02
Charles
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Received on Sun Sep 27 1998 - 10:35:58 BST