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+date: "2003-12-06T08:04:43Z"
+title: Keith Packard and 32-bit Enlightenment
+---
+
+<p>
+<a href='http://www.keithp.com/'>Keith Packard</a> explains how to make <a href='http://www.enlightenment.org/'>Enlightenment</a> work with 32-bit visuals. (linked from the <a href='http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel'>Enlightenment development mailing list</a>):
+</p>
+
+<blockquote cite='http://pdx.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xserver/2003-November/000302.html'>
+<p>
+Well, that's to be expected -- enlightenment happens to find the depth 32
+visual and get excited about it. Unfortunately, that depth 32 visual has
+alpha bits in the upper 8 bits that enlightenment doesn't understand.
+Leaving those zero makes for some pretty transparent windows, hence you
+see the background.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+xcompmgr did have a bug where enlightenment set the _XSETROOT_ID property
+to 0 which caused it to kinda lose when drawing the background. That was
+easy enough to fix though.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I have a hacked up xlib which discards depth 32 visuals; using that makes
+enlightenment work reasonably well. Of course, the right fix is to make
+it understand those visuals and "do the right thing". It shouldn't take
+very much work to make Eterm really be translucent, and to fix the
+thumbnail window. Sample code for another thumbnail viewer can be found
+in /cvs/xapps/uncover. That crashes the server when E is running
+right now though. Time to go debug some more :-)
+</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<a href='http://pdx.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xserver/2003-November/000302.html'>Here's</a> the full message.
+</p>
+