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

[Jose A Ortega Ruiz]

On Tue, Feb 01 2022, Po Lu wrote:

> Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> 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.
>
> Perhaps there's some toggle in Picom you can use to allow windows to be
> transparent.  I'm not sure about that, since I don't use Picom.

xmonad and picom show transparent windows, with the same
configuration. exwm and picom also obeys alpha.  same thing with
compton.  so i'm pretty sure it's an exwm problem, not a picom/compton
one.  thanks anyway!

jao
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