On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Liu, Nian(Neo) wrote: >Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:42:17 +0800 >From: "Liu, Nian(Neo)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0155_01C34630.ACEF14F0" >Subject: framebuffer and Xfbdev( urgent ) > >Hi, folks > >i'm responsible for researching the possibility to implement >semi-transparency in X and must have a quick conclusiong before >this Friday. since i'm quite a newbie in the field, here i ask >for your valuable help on: > >1)who is responsible for window rendering? Xfbdev or something else >2)if it's Xfbdev, has anybody cracked it to impelment any >feature such as semi-transparency or non-focus window dimming >out? > >i just know DirecrFB have excellent implementation on >transparency among windows and have no time to dig the source >code in such limited time.
Neither the X protocol, nor any existing X11 extension support translucent windows. Some research has been done by Keith Packard and perhaps others in this area, however there is no working code that implements translucent window extension for X11, and it will likely be quite some time before someone implements it IMHO. I suspect sometime during XFree86 5.0 development, or possibly later, as it is likely to require some largish changes to the infrastructure. I would hypothesize that the likelyhood of you implementing this before the weekend is rather smallish. If you need a quick and dirty solution which gives the appearance of translucency without actually implementing it properly, you could do some ugly hack like some of the window managers do in your application(s). -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
