Stumped...

[Dennis J. Eberl]

Robert Meyer wrote:

> --- James A Simmons <jsimmons at acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > I know that one of the terminal programs was 'rxvt' but I don't
> > know
>

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> > > HOW THE HECK DO THEY DO THAT?!?!?!
> > >
> > > I've built pixmaps with transparent colors, ran strings on all of
> > the
> > > terminal emulators I have (don't have Eterm) looking for
> > interesting
> > > options, tried a few really stupid things that I didn't think would
> > > work and generally frustrated myself.
> >
> > It's called alpha blending. You can do some fancy stuff with it. I
> > can
> > post the theory behine alpha blending if you want. A example of it is
> >
> >
> >
> ftp://microwindows.censoft.com/pub/microwindows/ScreenShots/Microwindows-alphablend.gif
> >
>
> Actually, I'm not so much interested in the theory, just a cookbook
> "How-TO" to get the transparent *{term,vt} background.
>
> Looks WAY too cool to not try out.
>
> later...
>
> =====
> Bob Meyer

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James, I AM interested in the theory. If the
theory is too long to be posted to the list, I would
appreciate your sending it directly to me at
dje at pcom.net. Thanks.

Dennis