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Hm, I see your point. But I still think that accessing the data of other windows to draw a transparent background is a great deal of complexity for a terminal
by cbhl 14y ago
Hm, I see your point.
But I still think that accessing the data of other windows to draw a transparent background is a great deal of complexity for a terminal emulator -- AFAICT it means the terminal emulator has to be innately aware of the innards of the graphics system it's drawing to.
- mbell 14y agoThe app doesn't need to be aware of the content under the widget it wants to have an alpha value < 1.0. Its the job of the compositor to render the app's content as provided, regardless of what is over or under it, that is what it exists to do.