I have been using xcompmgr, but It does look like it could be a compositing
issue.
I have looked at the source for xcompmgr, and it looks like it refuses to
do composite rendering on embedded windows. I have tried to modify it, but
I couldn't get a desired effect
I also tried compiz, and it
running, you may have to
start xcompmgr
Instead of getting the result that I want, I just get a black square where
the background of the other application should show through
To demonstrate that translucency works in non embedding situations, just
set EMBEDDING to 0 test.cpp
Please let m