transparency - the real thing

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 06:25, Net Llama! wrote:
> A coworker just got a sexy new Mac Powerbook, and had me drooling over how 
> gorgeous the entire OSX UI is.  But what really blew me away was the fact 
> that OSX can do _real_ window transparency, like this:
> 
> http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Showcase/screen_shots/03.28.CocoaNTerminal.jpg
> 
> That means that every window can be transparent to whatever is behind it. 
> Not just the (now) cheap hacks that we see with linux terms, where you get 
> the background image, and nothing else.
> 
> Or maybe someone can prove me wrong.  Is there linux functionality that 
> will give me true transparency?

On KDE 3.1, this is sort of possible. All menus can be transparent. It
is actually useful sometimes when pull-down menus cover the work you
need the menu for. So, you do not need to get rid of and bring back the
menu if you need to consult on-screen info to make a decision in the
menu.

The only other transparent app I know of is eterm.

As OSX is using XFree86 (right?), some Linux desktop could also provide
this. I am not sure if transparency is an X thing now. I seem to recall
reading that.

IMO, I like the transparent menus. But not all windows. I quickly got
bored with transparent eterm.