On 24 Sep, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I heard some rumours that some "alien" (i.e. non-fvwm2) window managers are
> advancing and producing new interesting features. I always assumed that
> fvwm2(.0.46) contains all possible features one can ever dream of in the
> mighty X Window System. Now someone tells me that Enlightment is capable of
> producing "semi-transparent" windows whereby you can see what is happening
> on the background xterm while having focus on a foreground one. That's a
> neat feature and I hope fvwm2 does support it.
>
> So, the question is - what do I tweak in my ~/.fvwm2rc to make it work?
>
> My .fvwm2rc is attached, btw if anyone is curious - it's got lots of nice
> shortcuts.
>
> Regards,
> ------ -------- --------- -------- -- - -- ---- --
> Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com
> Escalations Research Group | tel: +44-(0)1923-813796
> Santa Cruz Operation Ltd | Email: tigran_at_sco.com
As I understood it, it wasn't quite that clever - simply that if you
set up the root window with Esetroot and used ETerms, the background to
the ETerm was the region of the root window image the Eterm was over.
This gives 'transparency to the root window' but not to any other
underlapping window contents. I assume this is done by Esetroot setting
an environmental variable to the root window image and the ETerms,
which are said to be rxvt derived picking it up and using their own
coordinates to window the relevant part. I also gather that the effect
fails if you change the root window image which tends to support it
being something like this.
It may be the case that the interaction is purely between ETerm and
ESetroot, in which case, the fvwm2 setup is irrelevant.
Fun, certainly, but not as useful as anything approaching true
transparency could be.
Kim
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Received on Thu Sep 24 1998 - 12:10:02 BST