From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Andrea Vettorello" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Transparent background Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:25:03 +0100 Message-ID: <7d5440240801310425j563d4a97h8dd25553bf6b4063@mail.gmail.com> References: <7ffdab830801310038y66a624b1p520d7f3a36915578@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201782337 842 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2008 12:25:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:25:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 31 13:25:57 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JKYUM-0000ei-AA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:25:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKYTu-0006tu-Pp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:25:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKYTc-0006tl-Ol for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKYTb-0006tR-B8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKYTb-0006tO-56 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:25:07 -0500 Original-Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.185]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKYTb-0001hQ-E3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:25:07 -0500 Original-Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c27so841110rvf.6 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:25:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=34YGNFo9NgY9UZMxbr4ivKKnqtmJgPnL/4iUGKX2fDY=; b=D+nlJKUnBIgxv0IDyknpy/eqriGbt0wqh8+rQ51MjbkD0vqt8WJY7Axkk6DE+0ccNXuDNrs7nIsmmGIMs862pgQAOtQDPLB8fHRRlk3oZkFjOnfnJet0cSS3/3MLnm/k/qAycLGcw+apEhkmtPftB19+O//l0h0sbTVoPVuBs3k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=yG/nNnqCT0/01iyKWBzpyQyhPjeXQY4wqjSeF5xcNPtsg6q52xZu/T8KoJNvXIRaOTovlhKhb28ClVAKOPyaZ2ukKFPFmpDN7Fk51YJDfBBep6mDeko72Qahh7hTnyGQ94HhIRDc0OAyQcY8hS2xH9/4ra+P0FC1rtS78PY5hW4= Original-Received: by 10.141.107.13 with SMTP id j13mr1413999rvm.276.1201782303694; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:25:03 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.141.201.3 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:25:03 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <7ffdab830801310038y66a624b1p520d7f3a36915578@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51120 Archived-At: On Jan 31, 2008 9:38 AM, Madhukar Kumar wrote: [...] > Can someone tell me how to get transparent background? > > I work on Linux (Operating System Ubuntu, version 7.04). The transparent background you are using is an old hack (clipping of the root window pixmaps), for real transparency you need a WM that supports "compositing" (that i know xfwm4, development Metacity version, probably Kwin 4.0, probably Compiz), or using a compositing manager (deprecated). If you ask me, I would find it distracting: http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/8813/composite1sr2.png (Emacs on a gnome-terminal, Metacity 2.21.something) -- Andrea