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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    RE: Transparency -- take 2
From:       Geert Jansen <g.t.jansen () stud ! tue ! nl>
Date:       1999-09-30 13:09:07
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Dirk A. Mueller wrote:
> Mosfet <mosfet@jorsm.com> wrote:
> 
> > b) have some mechanism for the shared pixmap to "fork" a local copy
> > if kdesktop bombs.
> 
> This a must. Imagine someone types "killall kdesktop" in a transparent
> konsole ;-)
> 
> I wonder if we can somehow convince the X server to do the sharing for
> us. I can remember that these xpixmap id's are build so that more than
> one program can use them.

Correct. And with XSetCloseDownMode() they even stay there after a kdesktop
crash. This is what I was saying :)

Greetings,
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    Geert Jansen                       email: <g.t.jansen at stud.tue.nl>
    Phylosopher, Physicist                        PGP key ID: 0xD2B5E7CE

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