Re: Translucent X Windows
On Aug Sun 24 2003 23:34, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 20:19, J. Javier Maestro wrote:
> >
> > Here, there is a guy that is working on a nice hack for the X windows to
> > support transparencies like MacOSX:
> >
> > http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~unk6/transluxent/
> >
> > He gives a binary (I guess for i386) and source, but the source requires
> > the XWindow source tree. Now... the question is... 8-)
> >
> > How difficult is to rebuild the X server??
>
> Don't bother, transluXent fails to run with a GLX error. I mailed the
> author about it quite a while ago but never got a reply.
Arrg!
> 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.
OK, I'll have a look. This is another branch of X, right? I mean, it is
not in Debian (I'll check google :-)
Thanks!
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J. Javier Maestro
<jjmaestro@computer.org>
http://rigel.homelinux.com
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