Re: Eterm tiling and Esetroot
Chris MacLeod (stick@physis.viper.net)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:00:00 -0500 (CDT)
What's the main Eterm Development Home page?
I came across a while back but I can't find the message.
On 19 Oct, Doug Alcorn wrote:
> ube <ube@rajraj.nu> writes:
>
>> David Mihm wrote:
>>
>> > Eterm does "pseudo-transparency", and with 1.5beta5 it no longer
>> > requires Esetroot to set the transparency correctly. As has been said by
>> > others, Eterm won't do transparenc on tiled images. This is obviously
>> > better and less memory intensive to simply use the same pixmap as the root
>> > bg anyway - that should be common sense, but apparently not to some. (no
>> > offense to anyone here - just a statement) :)
>> >
>>
>> That sound great, but how do get Eterm's "pseudo-transparency" to work in
>> beta5 without loading Esetroot?
>>
> Esetroot was used to do some X11 atom communication between the X
> server and the Eterm application. As of 1.5b4 patch 05, sasha has
> modified the pager to perform this atom communication. This works
> well as I have been using it for quite some time (almost since that
> patch was released).
>
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