Transparent window in Xwindow parent
问题 I am trying to create an overlay window above another running application. Let's say firefox. I implemented by using Xcreatewindow win = XCreateWindow( display, *firefoxwindow, 50, 300, 400, 400, 0, visualinfo.depth, InputOutput, visualinfo.visual, CWColormap|CWEventMask|CWBackPixmap|CWBorderPixel, &attr ) ; I searched *firefoxwindow by using XQueryTree() and then followed this code https://gist.github.com/903479 The result is the transparent window when I use the XRoot as parent. But, when I