On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 17:04 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Am 17.08.2008 um 11:29 schrieb laurent laffont:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've switched to KDE4 and played with composite rendering.  With  
> > last squeak dev images some fonts are not rendered: it seems to be  
> > interpreted as a transparent region by the composite manager (see  
> > screenshot). I've tested this on my two debian boxes.
> >
> > This problem is not present in sq3.9.1-7075dev08.07.1 image, so I  
> > suppose it's due to NiceFont integration ?
> 
> 
> Maybe it occurs more often with nice fonts, but it actually is a  
> combined VM/image problem.
> 
> The VM prefers a 32 bit X visual (with alpha channel) over a 24 bit  
> one. If a compositing window manager is used, the alpha channel is  
> used for transparency, but the image generally does not care about the  
> alpha channel in its frame buffer.

Does that mean there is some core location(s) where the alpha channel
needs to be defaulting to full opacity but currently it is not?

Ken

> The olpc branch in the SVN repository has a fix for that, see
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/6fhqmw
> 
> - Bert -

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