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changeset 95529:48aeb7d8e750
alpha frame parameter details from Seiji Zenitani <zenitani at mac.com>.
| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:08:45 +0000 |
| parents | 40ef1e044cad |
| children | 8132494e3e26 |
| files | etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Wed Jun 04 05:58:33 2008 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Wed Jun 04 07:08:45 2008 +0000 @@ -121,10 +121,24 @@ 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]. +** 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.