[pkg-fso-maint] wishlist: transparent qwo

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Given that Xorg is starting to get usable I don't think patching
> Xglamo very good idea in the long run. Is anybody even maintaining it?
not sure... I am new to Debian on FR

> Transparently works out-of-the-box with Xorg here. I just installed
> xcompmgr and transset (experimental). Then I start xcompmgr, run
> transsset and click a window to set it transparent.
will check it out

is there a way to do smth like

transset 0.3 /usr/bin/qwo
?
transset doesn't do that according to sources... sure we could patch qwo
to have transparency built in...

tried with qwo -- cool... works... not sure how long Xglamo will hold
without crashing ;) but issue 2 remains

> > 2. (not that simple) make illume aware if we deal with transparent or
> Hmm, that'd mean that qwo would only work with one window manager?
hm... why? no changes in qwo are needed.  Change is due in illume to make
it able to don't resize whenever keyboard is raised

or did you refer to 2b option? ;)

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