transparent windows

[Antoine Martin]

Transparency aka "alpha channel" tracker ticket.

Original tickets and important changesets:

• #77 tray icons
• #262 disappearing tooltips
• #279 32-bit visuals and transparent windows
• #280 Systray icon transparency broken
• #385 opengl transparency (and more)
• #487 webp artifacts with transparency
• #500 small tooltip windows have transparency issues
• #577 detect lack of transparency support and disable it to save bandwidth
• #892 transparency forwarding is broken
• #961 transparency support is broken with pixmap backing
• #1145 pixbuf backend does not support transparency with desktop scaling enabled
• #1682 transparency with the native opengl backend on win32
• #1794 transparency with the native opengl backend on macos

[Antoine Martin]

Fixes in r16262:

• skip compositing check with opengl backend on macos (though transparency still doesn't work..)
• enable transparency by default on macos as this seems to work with both cairo and pixmap backends
• remove override in pixmap backing, use the superclass default (ie: enabled on macos)
• add better error logging when initializing / enabling transparency, especially failures

This reverts an earlier changeset: r4934 "transparency does not work on OSX" - as it works with cairo and pixmap, the opengl case may be fixable.
If not, we should disable it in the backend - which will save some bandwidth.

[Antoine Martin]

Hopefully this can be dealt with as part of #1569.

[Antoine Martin]

r17373 enables transparency with GTK3, which works for the cairo backend (with opengl=off).

For opengl, r17375 passes the flag to the glcontext class so it can choose an appropriate visual.
Unfortunately, despite using the ​DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow (as directed here: ​https://stackoverflow.com/a/4055059), the window remains opaque on win32. See patch attached.

[Antoine Martin]

try to enable transparency with opengl

[Antoine Martin]

r17385 uses non-opengl rendering if the window requires transparency, will follow up in #1682 for win32.

macos support is blocked by #1575

[Antoine Martin]

r18900 does the same as r17373 on macos: the cairo backend does handle transparency already just fine so let's use it, for opengl: #1794.

[Antoine Martin]

Closing as this is now supported on all platforms, with all the backends, except for win32 + opengl: #1682

[migration script]

this ticket has been moved to: ​https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1570