Konsole transparent not working without Composite ?

[Duncan]

Aaron Lewis posted on Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:24:22 +0800 as excerpted:

> If i don't enable Desktop Composite , can konsole be transparent ?

Based on the developer comments I've seen on kde-planet and the like...

Short answer, no... unless you want to hack in the effect yourself, of 
course.

Adding a bit more detail, the trick used in old kde3 konsole (and a couple 
other parts of kde) to do "transparent" was rather a hack -- they simply 
grabbed a copy of the desktop background and made it the konsole 
background.  Thus, it wasn't true transparency (obvious in that, if 
another window was behind the console window, it didn't show it, only the 
desktop background), but rather using the same background, taking extra 
memory, etc.

Now that xorg and kde support true transparency using the xorg composite 
extension and/or OpenGL, that's no longer necessary, and the kde folks 
have vowed not to clutter the kde4 code with the same kind of hacks used 
in kde3 to fake the effect.

So as mentioned, of course it's possible... but only if you wish to add 
the hack yourself (or pay someone to do it) as they're not going to do it.

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
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and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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