> Is that ever cool!!! Whoa! I just pulled up the standard gnome
> terminal and checked preferences, then checked images and checked
> transparent! Is there a way to make it transparent to the app running
> beneath it? Too cool... Ric
Here's a chunk of text from http://eterm.i-docs.org/faq/etermfaq.html
"Question 18 : Why can't Eterm duplicate the transparency found in GQMpeg,
XEyes, XDaliClock, etc.?
GQMpeg, xeyes, xdaliclock, etc. all use a concept called "shaped
windows." That means that the windows are non-rectangular. It's not a
rectangular window with some parts transparent; it is actually a
non-rectangularly-shaped window. So the places where it seems to be
transparent are actually places where the window doesn't exist. Which is
just fine for graphical applications, but Eterm needs to be able to render
the terminal text onto something. Since you can't render text onto a
window that doesn't exist, Eterm is S.O.L. So Eterm can't use shaped
windows. Now, Eterm *could*, in theory, create a window, render the text
onto an image, then copy the image to a mask and apply the shape mask,
making a window that is shaped precisely to the text. Then Eterm would be
"transparent." However, imagine the CPU power that would be required to do
that. Then realize that the entire process I just mentioned would have to
be redone from scratch for EVERY LETTER that was written to the window. So
basically you have to have a CPU with the power of a minor deity to do it.
In other words, for all intents and purposes, it can't be done that way.
The best solution would be for someone to add a draw event redirection
hook to X. As yet, however, this has not been done."
- Isaiah
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