Re: Transparent views

[Lundberg, Johannes]

Hi Riccardo

I used what I wrote in the first mail. Windowmaker+xcompmgr. The problem is what David says, the application window is moved to be a sub window of Windowmaker's window so the transparency properties are set on only the sub window.

I haven't run any test, only confirmed with my eyes that the window is not transparent.

However, this is no problem since I won't use Windowmaker or any other window manager for the final product.

Johannes Lundberg
BRILLIANTSERVICE CO., LTD.

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

Lundberg, Johannes wrote:

Hi All!

I've been playing around with getting transparent windows / views to work on FreeBSD.

On WindowMaker + xcompmgr / compton I can't get the window to be transparent. There doesn't seem to be any visual that has direct.alphaMask > 0. However, if I use the tool transset-df I can set the whole window to be transparent. (transset-df traverses the window tree and changes the properties of the root window)

However, if I use xfce4 + xcompmgr / compton transparency works fine. Both for pure X11 apps and NSApp with NSView and NSOpenGLView.

What do you use as test? Windowmaker + xcompmgr work fine for me, suing the Transparency Test of GSTest!

Perhaps you need to restart WindowMaker, I don't remember 100%, but it does work, I tested at the end of April the last time.

Riccardo