Re: Nautilus and Background control

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:07:05PM -0400, Beny Spensieri Jr wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 21:07, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:49:57PM -0400, Beny Spensieri Jr wrote: 
> > > If not, where can I submit a request for this?
> > 
> > Your X server vendor. X doesn't support this.
> > 
> > Havoc
> 
> Ok, now you've lost me.  How is it that gnome-terminal can have a
> transparent background, yet the Nautilus desktop which apparently is
> simply a big window can't?
> 

gnome-terminal is just displaying a copy of the background image
you've set. The desktop window already displays a copy of this, so is
"transparent" in the same sense.

Havoc