Re: true transparency?

[grante@visi.com (Grant Edwards)]

>> I don't know about the other terms, but gnome-terminal's
>> "transparency" is really amusing.  As Colin and some others mentioned,
>> it merely copies the background.  *However*, g-t copies the _gnome_
>> background, not what is in the root window.
> 
> Same thing for aterm. That's precisely why it's not truely
> transparent. Or rather the former is a consequence of the latter.

True tansparency wouldn't display either.  It would display
whatever is undernead the window -- including other windows.
Sounds extremely annoying to me.  I've usually got aterms
stacked 4 or 5 deep over a good portion of my screen, and
having the text from 5 terminals all merged together seems
uniquely useless.

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                                  at               everyone here with a cute
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