Solaris Handbook for Sun Frame Buffers

Changing SERVER_OVERLAY_VISUALS Support (-sov)

SERVER_OVERLAY_VISUALS is one of the root window's properties that contains the visual ID, transparent type, transparent value, and layer of the server overlay visuals (SOV) of the screen. You can toggle the advertisement of this property and the export of the transparent server overlay visuals using SUNWifb_config.

To Advertise SERVER_OVERLAY_PROPERTY and Export SOV
  1. Enter the following:


    SUNWifb_config -sov enable