Transparency behaviour with overlapping windows

Bug #8494 reported by Stuart Bishop
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gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

The transparency setting in the Terminal does not show up overlapped windows -
the effect only includes the desktop giving strange results (see screenshot).

This was on a system with a Radeon 9600 in case it has anything to do with drivers.

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Jeff Waugh (jdub) wrote :

This is intended. X transparency will not be sanely doable until stability of
and widespread use of the COMPOSITE extension.

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