On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 11:51:49AM +0000, Felix Schütt wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently trying to create a custom shape for a simple X11 window > (mostly for a splash screen). Based on the lacking documentation on > https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man3/XShape.3.html I can > however not find any way to do it. Is there a possiblity of some example > / testing code available somewhere? I can't figure out how I should use > XShape to create a non-rectangular window.
Hi You have oclock in the X.Org applications : https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/oclock > > My second question regards context menus and borderless windows. In a > regular X11 window, I can set the background to be transparent -however, > if I do that, I still have the shadows (drawn by the WM) around the > window. Is there any way in the X11 protocol or its extensions to > disable the shadow (to have a true transparent window)? I have often > wondered how context menus are handled - in many ways they seem like > regular windows, however they don't have the usual borders of a window. > For example, if I disable window decorations in Ubuntu Unity, the window > borders are still rounded. Context menus, on the other hand, do not have > any rounded borders. So they must be doing some kind of trick to get a > simple rectangular window working. I asked other people and they told me > that these developers are using XShape extensions. Is this true or is > there another way to do context menus? > > > Thanks in advance, > > Felix Schütt > > _______________________________________________ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: %(user_address)s -- Matthieu Herrb _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
