[ale] [OT] Making Emacs transparent in Cywgin

[Michael Trausch]

When did Cygwin get ported to run on Linux? ;-)

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> On Oct 31, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Jonathan Meek <jonathan.l.meek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey guys,
> 
> Came across a way to make Emacs transparent in Cywgin after a bit of research and wanted to share. 
> 
> 1) start up Emacs 
> 2) Add the following code to the buffer: 
> 
>          (defun djcb-opacity-modify (&optional dec)
>   "modify the transparency of the emacs frame; if DEC is t,
>     decrease the transparency, otherwise increase it in 10%-steps"
>   (let* ((alpha-or-nil (frame-parameter nil 'alpha)) ; nil before setting
>           (oldalpha (if alpha-or-nil alpha-or-nil 100))
>           (newalpha (if dec (- oldalpha 10) (+ oldalpha 10))))
>     (when (and (>= newalpha frame-alpha-lower-limit) (<= newalpha 100))
>       (modify-frame-parameters nil (list (cons 'alpha newalpha))))))
> 
>  ;; C-8 will increase opacity (== decrease transparency)
>  ;; C-9 will decrease opacity (== increase transparency
>  ;; C-0 will returns the state to normal
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-8") '(lambda()(interactive)(djcb-opacity-modify)))
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-9") '(lambda()(interactive)(djcb-opacity-modify t)))
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-0") '(lambda()(interactive)
>                                (modify-frame-parameters nil `((alpha . 100)))))
> 
> 3) save the file (C-x C-s) at ~/emacs.d/init.el 
> 4) restart Emacs 
> 
> Note: this sets that C-8 decrease transparency, C-9 to increase transparency and C-0 to set to normal 
> 
> Resources to make this guide: 
> http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/02/transparent-emacs.html
> http://www.cs.colostate.edu/helpdocs/emacs.html
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InitFile
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
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