[Lazarus] csOpaque seems to be broken in 0.9.29

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> 
> I did some Google'ing. At least under XLib, it is possible. Run 'xeyes'.
> :-)  xeyes uses the XShapeCombineMask API.

That would only work as 100% or 0% transparent - no opacity though.

For opacity you could piggy-back on the compiz window managers in X11. For
GTK2 you would use the following, which could be applied to any window with
a handle (as far as I understand).

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/unstable/gdk-Windows.html#gdk-window-set-opacity


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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