Re: master 1555453694: Implement `alpha-background' on non-Cairo builds

[Jose A Ortega Ruiz]

On Mon, Jan 31 2022, Po Lu wrote:

> Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> however, alpha-background doesn't work well in exwm (while alpha does;
>> alpha-background tints the background of the window but doesn't show
>> the underlying desktop wallpaper). that might well be a problem in exwm
>> rather than on emacs's side, though.
>
> It will only work on a composited display.  You could try running
> compton (or some other lightweight compositing manager that doesn't come
> with its own window manager) under exwm, and see if that works.

as mentioned, i am running a composited display, via picom (a modern
fork of compton).  with xmonad+picom things work well.


cheers,
jao