Re: Help writing a patch to allow transparent backgrounds?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 10:22:38 -0500
> 
> The only way to get transparency at the moment seems to be with the 'alpha 
> frame parameter. Unfortunately this makes the whole frame transparent, 
> instead of just the background. I'd like to make Emacs only draw text to the 
> screen, without painting a background. I'm on Linux with Gtk3.
> 
> I expect that this would require changing the way the background is painted, 
> and changing the way faces are drawn to not add a solid background.

I can try helping you with doing that in a non-Cairo build.  I'm not
familiar enough with the way Cairo drawing works (and I'm not sure we
have here anyone who does).

Let me know if doing that in a build without Cairo is useful enough
for you to work on that.

Thanks.