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Re:Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story? by onli on Saturday December 23, 2023 @08:32AM (#38744113)
From my experience this is wrong. If you set a transparent background in wxwidgets/gtk it will show you a grey background. And gtk3 even removed the ability to query the x background pixmap. So if there is better support for this at an X level, this is not available above.

See https://github.com/onli/simdock/issues/11, and if there really are good alternative solutions I'd be happy for some help.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story? by anthk on Saturday December 23, 2023 @02:15PM (#38747148)
Ah, too bad then. So, lots of stuff got deprecated, I didn't notice that until right now.

Still, there was another tech not querying the background pixmaps, but used from old X11 software to do non-rectangular windows. Oclock, maybe.

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