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Re: Transparent background


From: Joel J. Adamson
Subject: Re: Transparent background
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:19:35 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

"Madhukar Kumar" <madhukar@valuepitch.com> writes:

> Hi
>
> I use emacs, GNU Emacs 21.4.1, with a no-window option for programming. I get
> a black background when it opens, even if my terminal (where I run emacs) has
> a transparent background.
>
> Can someone tell me how to get transparent background?

Xfce Terminal (/usr/bin/Terminal on Slackware 12.0) can set a
transparent background.  I used it to get a transparent background, but
then thought better of it, since my backgrounds are always dark, and so
is my Emacs screen ;)

Joel

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