Hi, fringe bitmaps currently don't respect the frame parameter 'alpha-background', i.e., their background is opaque. But since the fringe itself *does* respect 'alpha-background', fringe bitmaps should do the same. This patch fixes that. See attached screenshots for the effect. The alpha-background used here was set with: (set-frame-parameter nil 'alpha-background 50) I am not sure which other platforms support 'alpha-background', and unfortunately I am not able to test with those. This patch applies to the pgtk and X Linux builds. The change is altering the parameter 'respect_alpha_background' in {pgtk,x}_cr_draw_image - while this name sounds quite generic, I didn't find any other usages of this function than drawing fringe bitmaps. I hope I didn't miss any. I hope that I'm following the conventions here correctly - please let me know if I can improve anything! Best Nate