Transparent background

Transparent background

[Madhukar Kumar]

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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?

I work on Linux (Operating System Ubuntu, version 7.04).



Regards,
Madhukar

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Re: Transparent background

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 31.01.2008 um 09:38 schrieb Madhukar Kumar:

> Can someone tell me how to get transparent background?

Do you really want a background that is not opaque, that lets the  
background shine through? What you describe looks like reverse-video.  
Among the options that 'emacs --help' displays is:

	--reverse-video, -r, -rv        switch foreground and background

Transparency in a terminal emulator window can be achieved with some  
of them, I think eterm is one. In Mac OS X Terminal.app exists ...

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Re: Transparent background

[Andrea Vettorello]

On Jan 31, 2008 9:38 AM, Madhukar Kumar <madhukar@valuepitch.com> 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)


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Re: Transparent background

[Joel J. Adamson]

"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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