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: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:39:48 +0000 Message-ID: <87y22vda17.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1062"; 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 Mon Jan 31 20:09:58 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 1nEc3q-000AdW-7R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:09:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51862 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nEc3o-00029d-Ia for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:09:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43898) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nEbcc-0001B9-8A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2022 13:42:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=52730 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 1nEbcR-0005hS-NE; Mon, 31 Jan 2022 13:41:45 -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=rkNhq/zTy87TKGfpNvtxBu4O4ttD9h5TDW8/HKg4bbQ=; b=VMlSxNvQ5TSG9gjmFtol mVXjBfNSUOfIqqZk4HKR7N/dbkqYSaypGE6rbhoUPjSpG5qqXCWKMw/rwG76ViagXaPLxYldq/lNc +fTlp3cn9D5oTO586E2clmivmLhs+9+M4vMRToL8jGqReE5FWrjUPXgVAYzt4t97PzPXpDu7ZU8Q+ 0a7YfB7fb/supb61uxIVdP+zV6R6uD4072jKQPKD5JLcaH7zYjTGfDefBPhQ0uijq2Q611gm9NtUG i3RHUKYCypit02QEeeURKTbwrN6mKXhSH/HK5GoWQquN04rWrZ7WINts7DlTYVZru0w+VCnEcLpoy C+if2oBgD9GIpQ==; Original-Received: from static-68-235-44-23.cust.tzulo.com ([68.235.44.23]:53902 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 1nEbag-0002uP-MJ; Mon, 31 Jan 2022 13:40:11 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (rivendell.localdomain [local]) by rivendell.localdomain (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id f719eb81; Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:39:48 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87sft4e5w6.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:285693 Archived-At: On Mon, Jan 31 2022, Po Lu wrote: > Jose A Ortega Ruiz writes: > >> however, alpha-background doesn't work well in exwm (while alpha does; >> alpha-background tints the background of the window but doesn't show >> the underlying desktop wallpaper). that might well be a problem in exwm >> rather than on emacs's side, though. > > 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. cheers, jao