[geeks] Sun a possible takeover target - rumours

Tue May 13 04:14:51 CDT 2003

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 05:58, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Why?  Because of speed?
>
> The idea is for it to be hardware accelerated so it becomes trivial.
>
> You should have this if you run the latest X servers and have the right
> drivers and hardware.

Maybe it's Xfree specific, but it can only do transparancy using very ugly 
tricks. And the transparancy does NOT happen in the X server I'm pretty 
sure... In fact X can only do transparancy for the root window, no real 
transparancy. 

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