[mythtv] Button backgrounds not working

[Isaac Richards]

On Thursday 06 March 2003 04:50 pm, Tom van Wietmarschen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:45:56PM +0100, Tom van Wietmarschen wrote:
> > Does anyone else have a problem with the backgrounds for buttons ?
> > They just don't show and I can't see why, I've tried looking for clues in
> > themedmenu.cpp but I see no reason why it shouldn't work.
> > also, when I rename button_off.png there's no complaint about a missing
> > image whereas it does complain when I remove button_on.png, so apparently
> > there isn't even an attempt to load it.
>
> I did some more debugging and the problem seems to be that alpha
> transparency isn't working. the 'off' buttons are too transparent and are
> therefor rendered as fully transparent. Still no clue why it can't do
> alpha.

The alpha blending depends on your xserver (and video card) supporting the 
render extension, I believe.

Isaac