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

[Jose A Ortega Ruiz]

On Tue, Feb 01 2022, Jose A Ortega Ruiz wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 01 2022, Po Lu wrote:

[...]

>> 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!

let me add that i just tried with emacs compiled with lucid and there
alpha-background works well with exwm and picom, so it seems only the
no-toolkit variant is affected (or maybe something was fixed today, i
haven't tried it back since yesterday).  so all is mostly well, thanks!

jao
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