Re: TWM: truetype support

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Eeri Kask wrote:
> Eeri Kask wrote:
>> Wait, please, don't commit yet!  :-)

> Here are my current twm improvement patches, organised thematically:

 	[...]

> (3) Introduces twm menu and iconmanager (and icon) transparency,
> introducing two keywords:  MenuOpacity, IconOpacity (in range 0 =
> transparent ... 255 = opaque).  Effectively it will be compiled in only
> if set '#define TWM_USE_OPACITY'.  It adds no complexity to twm as it
> only sets the "window opacity property" and as long you don't run
> something like

>    xcompmgr -c -o 0.5 -r 6 -t -6 -l -9  &

> in the background, this has no effect on anything.

> I found two keywords the only solution as menus and icons have too
> different transparency values in order to configure them with one
> keyword.  I have  "MenuOpacity 245" and "IconOpacity 200" in .twmrc.

This one is X.Org-specific as it relies on an extension not provided by 
XFree86.

Marc.

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