Re: [E-devel] Feature request!

[Hisham M. B. <his...@gm...>]

On 3/6/06, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <ra...@ra...> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 10:06:18 +0100 Anders Troback <enlightenment@troback.c=
om>
> babbled:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > it should be very nice if there was a way to have a transparent option
> > for the desklocker! Now I'm using xtrlock but it have been nice to have
> > it in E!
>

> not really possible - not without grabbing the screen. not going to be do=
ing those hacks. you will get trans when finally we do compositing in e18 o=
r e19 (and xcomposite etc. is ready for use). when that happens the existin=
g design will work perfectly and "just work" (tm). we wont have to REMOVE h=
acks.
>

I believe Anders want to simply not display desklock's bg, ie, have
the desktop showing, and have it locked, like the first version of
desklock. So we would simply have to not display the desklock bg.


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