Transparent windows allow you to look through an overlay window into the image planes.
Creating a Transparent Window with `xseethru' |
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xseethru is a transparent overlay-plane window used to see through the overlay planes to the image planes.
Use xseethru from the command line.
xseethru [-geometry width×height±col±row] [-display host:display.screen]
where:
- -geometry
The geometry used to create the window.
- -display
The screen the window will appear on.
This example opens a transparent window 100-pixels by 100-pixels in size and located 50 pixels from the left and 25 pixels from the top of the screen.
xseethru -geometry 100x100+50+25 Return
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Creating a Transparent Window with `xsetroot' |
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xsetroot allows you to make the root window transparent when you are running X in the overlay planes.
Use xsetroot from the command line.
where:
- -solid
Sets the window color to color.
This example turns the root window into a transparent window.
xsetroot -solid transparent Return
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Creating a Transparent Background Color |
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Any window may have transparent as its background color.
This example opens an hpterm window with a transparent background color. <'para>
hpterm -bg transparent Return
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