Re: Quick thought - cheaper transparency

[Alfredo Kengi Kojima <kojima inf ufrgs br>]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Michael ROGERS wrote:

If you get the latest rxvt, there's an option that does that.

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Alfredo

> 
> On my system there's a noticeable delay between moving a transparent terminal
> and seeing its background updated - I guess this is because it only checks
> that its background is up to date a few times a second? (As you say, you
> wouldn't expect the actual drawing to take long at all.) I think that if a
> ParentRelative background was used, there would not be a noticable delay
> because the background would be updated automatically by the server. Might
> look nicer, especially for opaque window moves.
> 
> Michael
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