From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Transparent background Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:19:35 -0500 Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here. Message-ID: <874pctc0lo.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201875783 11102 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2008 14:23:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:23:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 01 15:23:24 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 1JKwna-0008M0-Tn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:23:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKwn9-0003Ad-Cn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:22:55 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1201804019 3187 132.183.29.121 (31 Jan 2008 18:26:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:26:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1Qe/un8yMc0sCDdA9MvI9FfhlJ8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155764 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:22:36 -0500 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:51150 Archived-At: "Madhukar Kumar" 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 -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109