From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to transparent Emacs? Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:27:49 -0400 Message-ID: <87fv2grebu.fsf@yale.edu> References: <87d1xocrfu.fsf@gmail.com> <87613g5fcs.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87pp1o9f35.fsf@gmail.com> <20150913081657.GF13716@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442258912 1635 80.91.229.3 (14 Sep 2015 19:28:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:28:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 14 21:28:24 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbZQN-0005jk-3c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 21:28:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43128 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbZQM-0001jS-9i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:28:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60790) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbZQ7-0001ie-Fd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:28:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbZQ4-0003h7-6t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:28:07 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37534) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbZQ4-0003gy-07 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:28:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbZPz-0005Lq-2k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 21:27:59 +0200 Original-Received: from 130.132.236.141 ([130.132.236.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 21:27:59 +0200 Original-Received: from jorge.alfaro-murillo by 130.132.236.141 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 21:27:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.132.236.141 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dOBzxbDpLWvMugGarwgBER6Ssyc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107203 Archived-At: tomas@tuxteam.de writes: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 11:11:58AM +0200, Thierry Volpiatto wrote: >> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" writes: >> >> > Thierry Volpiatto writes: >> > >> >> stardiviner writes: >> >> >> >>> Is there a way to make Emacs transparent in KDE? >> >> >> >> (set-frame-parameter (selected-frame) 'alpha 60) >> > >> > On MacOSX, doesn't work in X11.app for emacs running on linux, but >> > works >> > with emacsformacosx. >> >> I use this on GNU/Linux without problems. > > I guess you need one of the more "modern" compositing window managers. Yes, for example in the 12 year old xcompmgr it works fine =) -- Jorge.