Re: How to set a pixmap as an emacs background rather than a color?

[ken <ken@cleveland.lug.net>]

I've done this in enlightenment with no mouse problems.

On an RH 7.2 machine running gnome now....  

Try this:

gnome-terminal &

In the new terminal click on "Settings | Preferences | Image", click
"Background pixmap" then browser for the desired pixmap.  On this same
panel you can also select the image to be shaded-- makes text easier to
read on top of some lighter images.  Click "Apply", then "OK" a couple
times.  As soon as you click on "Apply" the pixmap will show up in the
window.  In this window, run "emacs -t $(tty)" and emacs will start in 
it.  I just did all of this and then used the mouse to copy-n-paste the 
text in that emacs window into this email:

Welcome to GNU Emacs, one component of a Linux-based GNU system.

Get help           C-h  (Hold down CTRL and press h)
Undo changes       C-x u       Exit Emacs               C-x C-c
Get a tutorial     C-h t       Use Info to read docs    C-h i
Activate menubar     M-`
(`C-' means use the CTRL key.  `M-' means use the Meta (or Alt) key.
If you have no Meta key, you may instead type ESC followed by the 
character.)

If an Emacs session crashed recently, type M-x recover-session RET
to recover the files you were editing.

GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of Mon Jul 30 2001 on stripples.devel.redhat.com
Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type C-h C-w for full 
details.
Emacs is Free Software--Free as in Freedom--so you can redistribute 
copies
of Emacs and modify it; type C-h C-c to see the conditions.
Type C-h C-d for information on getting the latest version.


Seems to work fine.

hth,
ken


Tim Haynes at 14:19 (UTC-0000) on Tue, 10 Dec 2002 said:

= ken <ken@cleveland.lug.net> 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
=