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#9181
24.0.50; Alpha transparency no longer works
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Reported by: Luka Novsak <lnovsak <at> gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:17:03 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 24.0.50
Done: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #11 received at 9181 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:10 PM, David De La Harpe Golden
<david <at> harpegolden.net> wrote:
> Note this feature depends on compositing being active: all it does is set
> the relevant x11 window property to request the compositing manager render
> the window with some alpha. So it has no effect if you've, say, turned off
> compositing (sometimes called "desktop effects") in a window manager capable
> of it (say XFCE), or have switched to a low-requirements desktop environment
> / window-manager that doesn't do it at all.
Yes, I'm running xcompmgr; alpha transparency is working fine in other
applications.
I've noticed a peculiar detail--this problem does not occur when
running X without a window manager, say if I only run xcompmgr and
emacs in my X session. I've tried this with multiple window managers,
so it doesn't seem to be the fault of either one.
For now I'm back to running Emacs 23.3.1.
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