From: Tristan Wibberley <bloater@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 18:15:17 +0100

Re: speed question

On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 11:47:32AM -0400, Peter I Amstutz wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Timothy MacDonald wrote:
> 
> > It is just a guess but I am running transparent windows under
> > enlightenment ( i.e. the xterms show the desktop wallpaper as the
> > background ). It could be that enlightenment is writing that texture
> > directly to the framebuffer to refresh it and thereby doing bad things.
> 
> Transparent terminal windows, while cool looking, are just a hack.  It
> basically captures the background image from where the window is, shades
> it, then draws your text on that.  X isn't really capable of real
> tranparency (notice if you move an [aeg]term over another window, you
> don't see that window below it).  Berlin on the other hand... :)

There must be some serious security concerns with that. Not just from deliberate attacks, but from buggy, transparent window using apps that can *see* what's going on underneath?

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Tristan Wibberley