<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Alexei Babich wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:200812050953.40066.a.babich@rez.ru" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Or you want to write your own compositing manager? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">I have no window manager. I make simple and special toolkit for embedded applications. All widgets will be fixed and their location will be predetermined in advance. Hence the need for a window manager is absent. </pre> </blockquote> I think you don't need a window manager to use compositing manager. See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://picasaweb.google.co.in/lh/photo/ZaUsqSjleI8Xx-FpUPhL-g">http://picasaweb.google.co.in/lh/photo/ZaUsqSjleI8Xx-FpUPhL-g</a> To reproduce: xcompmgr -n & xcalc & xclock -geometry 200x200+350+100 & xedit -geometry 330x600+150+50 & transset 0.7 <click on window u want to make transparent> But for low-performance systems, and if u need this only for one or two windows, it may make sense to hard-code it in the application, as Dave said.. check the performance.. ~kammal </body> </html>