Re: The transparence code - is it installed?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Miles Bader wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
> > There was a question on EmacsWiki if the transparency code was installed:
> ...
> > it is. But it does not work for me (with my patched Emacs on w32). What
> > is the state now, is this patch installed? There is nothing in Info as
> > far as I can see.
>
> It is installed, but you'll need a compositing window manager (like
> compiz or mac osx) to use it.

Then there is something strange. There were several people trying to 
make me add this to my patched Emacs for w32. What has happened to the 
w32 part? Was it lost somewhere?

> I've tried it, and it works, but it doesn't seem terribly useful in
> practice -- afaict, it affects _everything_ in the emacs frame, not just
> the background (and compiz, at least, can actually do that without any
> emacs support at all)...
>
> -Miles