Re: true transparency?

[Matthew Dalton <matthew.dalton@cisra.canon.com.au>]

Craig Dickson wrote:
> 
> As I understand it, eterm, aterm, konsole, gnome-terminal, and other
> *ix-based "transparent" X terminals all fake transparency by copying the
> root window's background (possibly shading it or adding other effects).
> The net result is that each window has the root window's background,
> making it seem that you're seeing "through" the window to the root
> window below. However, if you overlap two windows, you can't see the
> lower window through the upper one, which is what MacOS X does. So the
> correct answer to the original question is "No, nothing on Linux does
> this."

Yes, something on Linux does this -- Berlin.

http://www.berlin-consortium.org/screenshots.html


You probably want something X based though...

Matthew


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