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alpha frame parameter details from Seiji Zenitani <zenitani at mac.com>.

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You can embed Emacs in another application on X11.  The new command line option
--parent-id is used to pass the parent window id to Emacs.  See
http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-latest.html
for details about XEmbed.

FIXME
** There is a new frame parameter, alpha.
This [does something] on [some kind of system] with [some kind of X
server] and [some kind of window manager].

** Emacs comes with a new set of default icons.
Various resolutions are available as etc/images/icons/hicolor/*/apps/emacs.png.
The Emacs 22 icon is available as `emacs22.png' in the same location.

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You can embed Emacs in another application on X11.  The new command line option
--parent-id is used to pass the parent window id to Emacs.  See
http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-latest.html
for details about XEmbed.

** Controlling the frame opacity
The opacity of a frame can now be controlled by setting the `alpha'
frame parameter, on an X Window system with the composite extension.

The alpha parameter should be an integer between 0 (transparent) and
100 (opaque) or a float number between 0.0 and 1.0.  Optionally, the
opacity can be set by a cons cell; the first item controls the
opacity of an active frame, and the second item controls that of
non-active frames.

 (set-frame-parameter nil 'alpha 80)
 (set-frame-parameter nil 'alpha 0.8)
 (set-frame-parameter nil 'alpha '(100 70)) ; (<active> [<inactive>])
 (set-frame-parameter nil 'alpha nil)

Note that the threshold opacity of a frame is defined by the variable
`frame-alpha-lower-limit' (default 20), so that the user may not lose
control of the frame.

** Emacs comes with a new set of default icons.
Various resolutions are available as etc/images/icons/hicolor/*/apps/emacs.png.
The Emacs 22 icon is available as `emacs22.png' in the same location.