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From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Transparent background
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:19:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874pctc0lo.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6787.1201771780.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

"Madhukar Kumar" <madhukar@valuepitch.com> writes:

> Hi
>
> I use emacs, GNU Emacs 21.4.1, with a no-window option for programming. I get
> a black background when it opens, even if my terminal (where I run emacs) has
> a transparent background.
>
> Can someone tell me how to get transparent background?

Xfce Terminal (/usr/bin/Terminal on Slackware 12.0) can set a
transparent background.  I used it to get a transparent background, but
then thought better of it, since my backgrounds are always dark, and so
is my Emacs screen ;)

Joel

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       reply	other threads:[~2008-01-31 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.6787.1201771780.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-31 18:19 ` Joel J. Adamson [this message]
2008-01-31  8:38 Transparent background Madhukar Kumar
2008-01-31 11:25 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-01-31 12:25 ` Andrea Vettorello

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