Tampering with parent window's transparency.

[Ivan Vilata i Balaguer]

En/na Marc Lehmann ha escrit::

> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:40:12PM +0100, Ivan Vilata i Balaguer <ivan at selidor.net> wrote:
> [...]
> => Just enable tinting, which uses different algorithm that doesn't tinker
> with inhertpixmap tricks.
> 
> Or, better yet, just enable transparency - all current Xorg releases
> support native, real, and correct, transparency.

Tinting seems to have the same problem as pixmap inheriting, and real
transparency is not what I am looking for, anyway. :(

En/na Marc Lehmann ha escrit::

> [...]
>>Maybe I amb completely wrong (I know nothing about low-level X
>>programming), but at least it works.
> 
> Yes, for ion, only, unfortunately (and other window managers that use
> extremely simplistic decorations). The patch is not correct for ion
> either, as it relies on internal behaviour of ion that might or might not
> change in the future.
> 
> Pseudotransparency is a hack, and no amount of tinkering will fix it.

Oh, you mean there are WMs using several parents to decorate a single
window?  Wow!  Well, I will play a little with real transparency.  If it
does not work, I'll stick with my bronken-ionish version of Rxvt. ;)

Thank you!

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