Re: How to set a pixmap as an emacs background rather than a color?

[Tim Haynes <usenet@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk>]

ken <ken@cleveland.lug.net> writes:

> You can do this with enlightenment, a window manager you should have
> installed on your system. AFAIK, you'd have to open emacs in a terminal
> window, then set the properties on that window; this can be automated
> into an icon of course. Enlightenment also allows "transparent" windows,

No, windows allow transparent windows. It has nothing to do with E.

You're recommending the OP start using e.g. Eterm or gnome-terminal with
their transparent background abilities, that's all.

> i.e., the background will be whatever wallpaper would otherwise be hidden
> by the window. I did both of these before and they worked fine. But,
> depending on the background image and the color(s) of the foreground
> (here, characters), the text can be difficult to read.

More to the point, you totally lose the point of having emacs being an X
application: the mouse-interaction will be fubarred and there won't be any
scope for a toolbar, nor even for a graphical representation of the
menubar.

Some, of course, would say this was a good thing ;8)

~Tim
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