From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Haynes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to set a pixmap as an emacs background rather than a color? Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:19:36 +0000 Organization: What's Organization? Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <864r9mvtvr.fsf@potato.vegetable.org.uk> References: Reply-To: news_reply@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039530743 31673 80.91.224.249 (10 Dec 2002 14:32:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:32:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18LlQo-0008EL-01 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:32:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18LlP4-0001ej-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:30:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!potato.vegetable.org.uk!spodzone!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Anti-Echelon: racal User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:n0hhdygx+oskaXLwy0t4PiLhxa8= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 29 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107946 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4483 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4483 ken 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 -- Clouds cross the black moonlight, |piglet@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk Rushing on down to the sound |http://spodzone.org.uk/ of a turning world |