Re: Translucent X Windows

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 00:49, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> El lun, 25-08-2003 a las 00:37, Michel Dänzer escribió:
> > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 23:57, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> > > El dom, 24-08-2003 a las 23:34, Michel Dänzer escribió:
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > > If you want to try a cool alternative X server, I recommend XDirectFB.
> > > > It also does real translucency (although that's not yet accelerated on
> > > > Radeons) and other nice things.
> > > 
> > > Do you know if there is a plan to add native alpha channel support to
> > > all Xfree86 drivers?
> > 
> > I don't know of any such plans, what exactly do you mean by 'native
> > alpha channel support' anyway? RENDER extension, translucent windows,
> > ... ?
> 
> If I'm understanding the alpha channel utility (32 bpp colors), it's
> that it means the opacity of an image so it lets you handle true
> transparency, isn't it?
> 
> I mean true transparency directly with xserver-xfree86 drivers instead
> of hacks or emulations that takes a root shot to emulate the
> transparency effect.

Real translucency requires more than driver support, fundamental changes
to the core server such as in XDirectFB or transluXent.


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