New Emacs frame parameter for transparency

• emacs

  5 25 1.8 Emacs Lisp

  Mirror of GNU Emacs (by TheVaffel)

Hi all. Just wanted to let everyone know that in January of this year Emacs introduced a new frame parameter: alpha-background. I wrote a little about it here: True Emacs Transparency. To my knowledge, this originated from a patch by Håkon Flatval in November of last year.

• conky

  111 6,871 9.4 C++

  Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too

It is not like you would write your normal text in completely background window, that would be near to impossible, but there are some special use cases. Think for example Conky, if you are familiar with gnu/Linux and X11. Unfortunately the patch does work for image backgrounds, so we can display for example transparent svg images in Emacs frame, otherwise we could do svg animations on top of desktop.

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