Hello. :-)
I did manage to make pseudo-transparent menus, but now I'd like
to make something more "real". What I'd like to do is to have
something like there is in KDE.
It should work like this:
1. user clicks thus calling a Menu.
2. current screen dump is taken (with all the windows, but
without a menu just as yet).
3. this screen dump is made available to Menu as
root background pixmap.
4. Menu is displayed with tinted real background.
This way it's pretty easy to make an illusion of real
transparency (and looks "l33t", as some may say).
My question is, how to do it to, and make it good. I came up
with a function which would call xwd, convert and fvwm-root
and then call Menu. Which is slow (convert) and does set
background instead of just making it "virtually" available
to Menu...
Second question -- Xrender. AFAIK this extension allows
making windows really transparent/translucent without using
any of these tricks. I know fvwm has Xrender support, but
is there a way (magical fvwm2rc lines :)) to enable
Xrendered translucent windows? :-)
Regards,
Dawid
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Received on Mon Aug 25 2003 - 14:02:39 BST