Re: master 1555453694: Implement `alpha-background' on non-Cairo builds

[Po Lu]

Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> writes:

>> It will only work on a composited display.  You could try running
>> compton (or some other lightweight compositing manager that doesn't come
>> with its own window manager) under exwm, and see if that works.

> as mentioned, i am running a composited display, via picom (a modern
> fork of compton).  with xmonad+picom things work well.

Perhaps there's some toggle in Picom you can use to allow windows to be
transparent.  I'm not sure about that, since I don't use Picom.

Thanks.