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Inspired_Blue
Asked: 2018-02-19 09:43:48 +0800 CST

How to make Emacs transparent with i3-wm?

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As instructed here I added the following lines to my emacs configuration file:

(set-frame-parameter (selected-frame) 'alpha '(85 . 50))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(alpha . (85 . 50)))

But nothing changed. Every post that I checked on-line suggested that the above should work.

So I logged out of my i3 windows manager and logged in using Mate Desktop and viola the transparency worked!

So question now is: what else do I have to do to make emacs transparent on i3?

EDIT: I am using feh to set up my desktop background.

p.s.: I have the gnome terminal transparent on i3 and it works fine.

emacs transparency i3-wm

1 Answers

  1. You want this: https://github.com/vava/i3-emacs

    Clone it into your emacs folder:

    git -C ~/.emacs.d/ clone https://github.com/vava/i3-emacs

    then add the following lines to your init.el:

    ;; i3 integration
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/i3-emacs")
(require 'i3)
(require 'i3-integration)

    Note: This only seems to have an effect when emacs is run in a terminal, i.e. emacs -nw, although I have only just found it myself so not sure if it can apply to "GUI Emacs" too.

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