Konsole transparent not working without Composite ?

[Aaron Lewis]

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On 07/24/2010 10:47 AM, Duncan wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yep , same trick for `conky' , faked desktop transparent , ok , you got it.


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