Re: How do people make the semi-transparent windows?

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Michael Torrie <torriem chem byu edu> writes:

> > Can anyone tell me how people make those windows semi-transparent? Is
> > it done in gtk or in the specific window manager?
> 
> Until the compositing extensions are defined and available in X11, there
> is no real way to make windows semi-transparent.  

True, but somehow imprecise. There is no way when using X11. Other
windowing systems already do support transparency and windows with
alpha channel.


Sven