From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jose A Ortega Ruiz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 1555453694: Implement `alpha-background' on non-Cairo builds Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 02:55:52 +0000 Message-ID: <8735l0odzb.fsf@gnus.jao.io> References: <877dac4rkz.fsf@gnus.jao.io> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19788"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 03 03:57:26 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nFSJK-00052o-Ca for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2022 03:57:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60956 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nFSJJ-0005Dv-6J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:57:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53064) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nFSID-0003w6-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:56:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=52634 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nFSI1-0001Ln-GR; Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:56:16 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-Version:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:To: From; bh=gtbfyOE4NW6xDq+vGG2WU2SAGCTjq69fbpghyqNwOxc=; b=Qbt7bGQaXZiryDByhhge mfN7LUgFIPEozwxz09jR5bl5WOWA8qxgYQ0Q2fIMCbDmdEOtasY0843ZdueXDKhtGyTZWE/dVSUDl Joi+W2k6Ez4J2SpwUqLlKTEATnDUBohkBx+i4YN3aNfAMZ1TXJozQswamgCbkSeCfI1sTmRMAofDj AjuEi23mwSwkA4aeYqkuyUaPJi3im8UXc40up7v+Al23rzOZT87dcoQ6rdtDv9sKFKqfBDhHp6BtM xHkZ18E2rfTps1fw88F9VOE/Ywy1lbP0JiBw1hhn/iq7vWlcCnim7LNUasuT5Pt2+5Aqi9NjRnYQB qJBeEV896p6SZw==; Original-Received: from cpc103048-sgyl39-2-0-cust502.18-2.cable.virginm.net ([92.233.85.247]:35314 helo=rivendell.localdomain) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nFSHr-0002Yo-Rm; Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:56:05 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (rivendell.localdomain [local]) by rivendell.localdomain (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 22abb74b; Thu, 3 Feb 2022 02:55:53 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <877dac4rkz.fsf@gnus.jao.io> X-Attribution: jao X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-URL: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:285821 Archived-At: > On Wed, Feb 02 2022, Jose A Ortega Ruiz wrote: > > i forgot to add that, when built with no-toolkit and without any alpha > or alpha-background spec, there's another new problem with exwm. exwm > has a "system tray" where it puts applets like nm-applet. before the > last changes to support alpha-background in non-gtk builds, exwm's > system tray had been working for me flawlessly. now it doesn't work at > all (the icons don't show up in the tray area, and new, empty buffers > are created instead). > > when compiling with the lucid toolkit there's no such problem, and tray > icons in exwm still work well. and yet another experiment: exwm's system tray is also broken when compiling --with-x-toolkit=gtk. maybe lucid is the only survivor because alpha-background-related code changes left its code unmodified? cheers, jao -- It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. -J.R.R. Tolkien, novelist and philologist (1892-1973)