From: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Help writing a patch to allow transparent backgrounds?
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 10:22:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56BA043E.1050305@gmail.com> (raw)
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Hi all,
The only way to get transparency at the moment seems to be with the 'alpha frame parameter. Unfortunately this makes the whole frame transparent, instead of just the background. I'd like to make Emacs only draw text to the screen, without painting a background. I'm on Linux with Gtk3.
I expect that this would require changing the way the background is painted, and changing the way faces are drawn to not add a solid background.
There are examples online:
* Two StackOverflow questions:
* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16832581/how-to-make-a-gtkwindow-background-transparent-on-linux
* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22940588/how-do-i-really-make-a-gtk-3-gtklayout-transparent-draw-theme-background
* A patch to implement this feature in Nemo:
* https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20131230/1165217.html
* Another patch:
* https://github.com/IgnorantGuru/spacefm/commit/5e4e148a2e1cf962fdf7dbc776d8d09ad110dbd7
* https://github.com/IgnorantGuru/spacefm/issues/269
It's not clear to me how to apply the ideas from these pages. I tried two sets of modifications:
* In gtkutil.c (xg_set_widget_bg (struct frame *f, GtkWidget *w, unsigned long pixel)), changing
bg.alpha = 1.0;
to
bg.alpha = 0.0;
* In xterm.c (x_set_cr_source_with_gc_background (struct frame *f, GC gc)), changing
cairo_set_source_rgb (FRAME_CR_CONTEXT (f), color.red / 65535.0,
color.green / 65535.0, color.blue / 65535.0);
to
cairo_set_source_rgba (FRAME_CR_CONTEXT (f), color.red / 65535.0,
color.green / 65535.0, color.blue / 65535.0, 0.0);
and compiling with --with-cairo
Both of these changes had the same effect: the background isn't redrawn anymore. The contents of the desktop (behind the Emacs frame) are captured when the frame is created, but never updated after that; instead, whatever gets painted there remains there.
Thanks for the help!
Clément.
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next reply other threads:[~2016-02-09 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-09 15:22 Clément Pit--Claudel [this message]
2016-02-10 18:35 ` Help writing a patch to allow transparent backgrounds? Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-10 18:46 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-10 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-10 19:36 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-13 13:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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