From: Luka Novsak <lnovsak@gmail.com>
To: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
Cc: 9181@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9181: 24.0.50; Alpha transparency no longer works
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 19:29:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE6FkMJZYgRcwydQkzLfGBWuZy84=wqthCrsa4b+Avq3tzUr8g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E396543.9020304@harpegolden.net>
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 5:12 PM, David De La Harpe Golden
<david@harpegolden.net> wrote:
> Again, either way, emacs blindly
> setting the property on its parent is the wrong thing.
It's an unelegant hack, to be sure.
> I just suspect
> filing bugs upstream to window managers for the non-propagation at this
> stage is something of a lost cause.
Then there's that.
So unless emacs uses this workaround for now, it will not have
functioning alpha transparency when used in combination with a large
majority of window managers. As I've said, I've reported this upstream
with Openbox, and I suppose users of other wm's will do so when they
upgrade to emacs24, but there are A LOT of non-compliant window
managers out there, and it shouldn't be expected for this to change
any time soon.
Perhaps there should be a push for this to be formally specified in
the EWMH. The proposal for it seems to be many years old, and the
practice widespread, so I don't see why this hasn't happened yet.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-03 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-25 20:41 bug#9181: 24.0.50; Alpha transparency no longer works Luka Novsak
2011-07-28 12:10 ` David De La Harpe Golden
[not found] ` <CAE6FkMJNzKxmfpx+tCE4PaACMJQL3ih4RiOrWXGGHMjcrJuaqA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-07-28 18:16 ` Luka Novsak
2011-07-28 23:07 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-07-29 9:34 ` Jan Djärv
[not found] ` <CAE6FkM+TJPFJ9ETwYM+1fg9f6LE54YeC=2t8yN8xLx_KqwBRCw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-07-29 17:46 ` Luka Novsak
2011-07-30 7:04 ` Jan Djärv
2011-08-02 20:23 ` Luka Novsak
2011-08-02 20:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-08-02 20:49 ` Luka Novsak
2011-08-03 8:13 ` Jan Djärv
2011-08-03 8:22 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-08-03 11:50 ` Jan Djärv
2011-08-03 15:12 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-08-03 17:29 ` Luka Novsak [this message]
2011-08-03 19:01 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-08-04 11:14 ` Jan Djärv
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