On Aug Mon 25 2003 00:41, Anders Lövgren wrote: > On Sunday 24 August 2003 20.19, J. Javier Maestro wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > 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?? XXDDD I mean, library > > dependencies, and the make actually working... coz I wouldn't mind > > giving that hack a try in my laptop! > > > > Building XFree86 shouldn't be a problem, it just takes some time :-). > > Make World and than copy final xc/programs/Xserver/Xtw to /usr/X11R6/bin. Do > an 'ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/Xtw' to make sure library dependencies are satisfied. > > > Anyone with knowledge on recompiling X? XXDD :-) > > > > Thaaaank you! > > > > -- > > J. Javier Maestro > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > http://rigel.homelinux.com > > One thing that strikes me after examine TransluXent source is that some > sections of the code is endianess dependent and protected by #if 0 statements > (i.e. xc/programs/Xserver/hw/tw/xtw.c). You might need to fix the code to be > big endian instead of little endian, or strange result might follow. Grep for > C bitshift operators << and >>.
Mmmm... I understand what you are saying, although my C programming is still quite *bad* (heh, it suckz big time!). In any case, I'll have a look.. at the end, my microprocessors and embedded ystems might come handy!! :-) Cheers! -- J. Javier Maestro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://rigel.homelinux.com
