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From: kwh@sei.cmu.edu (Kurt Hoyt)
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Subject: Overlay windows for X11?
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 16:06:04 EDT
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Keywords: X11 Overlays

Is there such a thing as an overlay window available in X11?

What I want is a window with a transparent background and an opaque
foreground in order to overlay graphics on static backgrounds (which would
be underneath the overlay in its own window).

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