This will break so much stuff, like you know, being able to click on things or move tabs around. Or minimize / zoom the window. It's possible to get it to work, but there are a lot of Difficulties, here's a similar PR<p><a href="https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/10208" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/10208</a>
As an addition, you can make any window translucent/transparent in X11 (running with a composite manager) using transset-df, e.g.,<p><pre><code> # Lets you click on a window and sets it's alpha to half
$ transset-df 0.5
</code></pre>
One usually gets annoyed with not being able to read their terminal properly after a while though.
On one hand, I get the desire for transparency, having sought after it for many years, esp. back when it was a rarefied commodity. But these days I find I'm mostly only in favor of either fully opaque windows or transparency that's darn near fully opaque. Just enough transparency to hint that there's something tucked behind a full- or half- screen window. I find that it's too just easy to compromise contrast and readability in editor windows.
I really would like to embedded atom as an online code editor... it seems like a no brainer given that its written in Javascript. But it seems there's no project to do this (hope I'm wrong!)<p>FWIW, I could never find any indication of an interest in this on the atom.io site, and googling "embed atom" and the like produce a lot of pages about Intels Atom CPU.
You mean "translucent". If it was transparent, you wouldn't be able to read the text.<p>(Besides, translucent GUIs are out. That's Vista/Win7.)