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: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 02:52:51 +0000 Message-ID: <877daf70xo.fsf@gnus.jao.io> References: <164359565887.4040.6267298953476481105@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <20220131022059.4E94CC40706@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <87a6fc4p8m.fsf@gnus.org> <871r0ofxi5.fsf@yahoo.com> <87fsp42zui.fsf@gnu.org> <874k5ke7dm.fsf@gnus.jao.io> <87sft4e5w6.fsf@yahoo.com> <87y22vda17.fsf@gnus.jao.io> <87czk7crda.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37724"; 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 Tue Feb 01 03:54:19 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 1nEjJB-0009fJ-Kg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2022 03:54:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41934 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nEjJA-0007Y7-1v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2022 21:54:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35572) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nEjHx-0006mO-6h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2022 21:53:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=33288 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 1nEjHw-00035g-P3; Mon, 31 Jan 2022 21:53:00 -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=6fPe1I4cEfYuT6f69N/ccVBXv94UxYAtHauSJw3CQb0=; b=cjIvGRtRcSvN5I1DLkXB MxzkiR+kJ8JigRN0dTBA58YX9d53z38dCFlsJ+G5Z16VIVr8Slk374gWX3gVuV+s8ut2kjaOjEGlQ TPTf9TnCKmm1fPyzlaZH16rFcEU6GIjAV1ovEXawe7o9LreOCJZY7rNMkLKpNXHumQpc0MioBRYhT MAVK0O42MbkWIqiP7fpNfTjfD0Rz3vkG4qkbaoSPn6Ic16Nvw4LxdY3gj4ctTnROHcme8UUjAmLWS a5VCaElJmEyWBNYqkZN99zWqiI32OQbFbPbcnxXLa9Q3OOMNfB0Nhu9nVGk5xLh96swOGg/l3XUjx 0ZkRp+T2NBJACQ==; Original-Received: from static-68-235-44-23.cust.tzulo.com ([68.235.44.23]:54628 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 1nEjHq-0008VB-Kq; Mon, 31 Jan 2022 21:52:55 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (rivendell.localdomain [local]) by rivendell.localdomain (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 7531eb80; Tue, 1 Feb 2022 02:52:51 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87czk7crda.fsf@yahoo.com> 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:285711 Archived-At: On Tue, Feb 01 2022, Po Lu wrote: > Jose A Ortega Ruiz writes: > >>> It will only work on a composited display. You could try running >>> compton (or some other lightweight compositing manager that doesn't come >>> with its own window manager) under exwm, and see if that works. > >> as mentioned, i am running a composited display, via picom (a modern >> fork of compton). with xmonad+picom things work well. > > Perhaps there's some toggle in Picom you can use to allow windows to be > transparent. I'm not sure about that, since I don't use Picom. xmonad and picom show transparent windows, with the same configuration. exwm and picom also obeys alpha. same thing with compton. so i'm pretty sure it's an exwm problem, not a picom/compton one. thanks anyway! jao -- "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams