[cairo] need help making background on custom cairo widget transparent

[Owen Taylor]

On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 12:15 -0400, Michael L. Gualtieri wrote:

> I think I'll take a quick look at the GtkLabel class, as it paints on its
> parent window instead of its own, however I think figuring out how that
> works may take more time than I have. 

Almost all GTK+ widgets paint on their parent's window rather then
creating new windows. The only exception (except for historical
oddities) are widgets that scroll their contents.

Anyways, this seems off topic for this mailing list?

						Owen