Re: Translucent X Windows
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 07:52:06PM +1000, J. Javier Maestro wrote:
> 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 :-)
It is part of the DirectFB project, the library of which are already
apckaged. Look at the copyright file of these library for the link, but
it should be www.directfb.org or something such. And no, it is not
related to XFree86, or something such.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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