Real trasparency in linux?


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ive been running fedora core 1 for 7 days got all things pretty much to work but im looking for eye candy things (missing my xp desktop :) ) Im looking for trasparency stuff- the only transparent things in kde3.1 are the konsoles and even this isnt "real" trasparency.Is there any way to see real trasparency in linux? is it an xfree or kde limitation?

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It's a limitation of the way X works at the moment. There are people working on this type of stuff though, and it will be in X soon, but for the moment if you want transparency, I think you're gonna have to patch your X with unstable alpha or beta transparency patches.

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It's a limitation of the way X works at the moment. There are people working on this type of stuff though, and it will be in X soon, but for the moment if you want transparency, I think you're gonna have to patch your X with unstable alpha or beta transparency patches.

*nods*

Also, you may want to check out

http://freedesktop.org/Software/xserver - the freedesktop.org Xserver

It was built from the ground up afaik, so it does not yet support hardware acceleration for video cards or opengl from what I've read.. However, it does have transparency and drop shadows on windows, and apparently runs as fast as Xfree (due to smaller, more optimized code).

I think Mr. Static Void and syscrash2k experimented with these from their posts on the desktop thread.

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https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=...dpost&p=1402218

That was my desktop a few months back when I played around with Xserver. It was much too buggy for everyday use. The windows moved very slowly and there was no hardware acceleration. GNOME did not need to be patched, I just ran a program in the background and it just worked. Unfortunately, there was no way to configure what had transparency and how much transparency. That will all come in the future.

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In KDE 3.1, you can do menu transparencies! :) But unfortunately, some styles may not be able to support it.

he's looking for _real_ transparency, not the screenshot type

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