On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:31:06PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Am Do den 18. Feb 2021 um 18:57 schrieb Dominik Vogt: > > They tell the X server to do it, mostly by doing alpha blending, I > > think. X offers no reliable way to get any screen contents other > > than what you can see. Doing that on the client is also really > > too slow. > > Do you know, how?
Not exactly, I was never interested in these pointless and mostly unusable visual effects. > From my knowledge, it only work with using another window manager than > fvwm. Yeah, we've never implemented stuff like that because of the reasons above. Looking "modern" instead of being usable and configurable has never been in the focus of development. There were some experiments in applications with transparent background before alpha blending was implemented in X, but this was unreliable and irritating. The only slightly helpful use of transparency I know of is for moving windows, but if that really is an issue, fvwm has wire frame window movement. Doesn't look fancy though. Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt
