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- From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
- Subject: Re: transparent X windows.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.174820.18661@cc.ic.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
- References: <34897@adm.brl.mil> <1ikjuuINNecc@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:48:20 GMT
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- In article <1ikjuuINNecc@fido.asd.sgi.com>, tdn@orient.asd.sgi.com (Todd Newman) writes:
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- - In article <34897@adm.brl.mil>, karron@karron.med.nyu.edu writes:
- - >
- - > With SGI machines with alpha planes, how much
- - > work would it be to give X windows a transparency property ?
- - >
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- - Every application you use would have to be rewritten to use alpha-blending.
- - Not just the GL ones, but the X ones as well. That's a LOT of work.
- .....
- I thought it just meant porting the rest of X11R5 (which supports transparent
- backgrounds) to IRIX, rather than just those bits that SGI found so useful that
- they pre-stitched them into X11R4 as distributed with IRIX 4.xx (full
- marks for that, since Irix 4 was released just before X11R5, but that is now
- 17 months ago ...)
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- Thomas
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