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LA.Center

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How to make a Window Transparent on Linux
« on: December 19, 2011, 07:02:41 pm »
Does anyone know how to make a LCL Form Transparent in Linux, by that I mean erase background with out alpha-ing out the contents of the form.
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felipemdc

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Re: How to make a Window Transparent on Linux
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2011, 08:16:22 pm »
I think it is not yet implemented, maybe in LCL-Qt. Also I'd say it will probably need the XComposite X11 extension to be installed to work, so not something which will work universally.

Non-rectangular forms on the other hand should work well in the LCL:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/LCL_Tips#Creating_a_non-rectangular_window_or_control
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