Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] feature request: coloured transparency

[MINAMI H. <mi...@mi...>]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:30:11PM +0100, Mike FABIAN wrote:
> Mike FABIAN <mf...@su...> =E3=81=95=E3=82=93=E3=81=AF=E6=9B=B8=E3=81=
=8D=E3=81=BE=E3=81=97=E3=81=9F:
>=20
> >> Hmm, I could reproduce the problem on -depth=3D8 but not on -depth=3D=
24.
> >
> > I use -depth=3D16.
> >
> >> Are you running X in 256 color mode?
> >
> >> and how did you set your root pixmap?
> >
> >  display -geometry 1600x1200 -window root ~/pic/20040530-150954.jpg
>=20
> I switched to useing -depth=3D24 but that doesn't make a difference,
> the error message remains:

Thanks, I understand what's hpenning.

With gdk-pixbuf, mlterm only see _XROOTPMAP_ID for root pixmap
since it had seemed to be the de-facto standard for me.
If I understanding correctly, both of GNOME and KDE use the property.

However, some applications are still using different ones
like ESETROOT_PMAP_ID or XSETROOT_ID.
Maybe "display" is one of them and mlterm+gdk-pixbuf currently
do not work well with it.

In the mlterm's imlib support module, there is a hack to grab root
window's image in such cases.
Though the same trick also had ben used in the gdk-pixbuf module,
I've dropped it 2 years ago since such effort is not necessary
if _XROOTPMAP_ID was correctly set and glabing X server may stop
screen update noticeably long(up to 0.5[s]).

Would you try to set a wallpaper by another one?
ex. "fvwm-root" should work according to its manpage.

It should also be possible to investigate how "display" works
but I don't have enough motovation/time fo now...

minami