Hello, Thanks for your answers and your time, but I fear that I didn't described the problem accurately enough. The background is in the window created with gtk2hs (windowNew). It's just a fixed layout (fixedNew): bg <- imageNewFromFile "bg.jpg" fixedPut fBox bg (0,0) If I now create the new image (with imageNewFromFile "my.png") with it's alpha values, I can put it somewhere via fixedPut, and the other image is just covered where it should be, but I can't rotate the image. So cairo and the surface come into play. This works as well, the surface has it's alpha values where it should, but a drawingArea created with drawingAreaNew has a rectangular shape and a color. This is the problem. -- best regards h. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/rotate-image-tp25122912p25199462.html Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.