--- title: Liquid Glass effect for GNU/Emacs | daily.dev description: A recipe for building GNU Emacs on macOS with a native liquid glass (NSGlassEffectView) frame effect, similar to Ghostty's appearance. It layers a custom Cocoa... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/liquid-glass-effect-for-gnu-emacs-b0yg8jb9m twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Liquid Glass effect for GNU/Emacs | daily.dev og:description: A recipe for building GNU Emacs on macOS with a native liquid glass (NSGlassEffectView) frame effect, similar to Ghostty's appearance. It layers a custom Cocoa... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/liquid-glass-effect-for-gnu-emacs-b0yg8jb9m og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/b0yg8jb9m.png og:image:alt: Liquid Glass effect for GNU/Emacs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Liquid Glass effect for GNU/Emacs **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A recipe for building GNU Emacs on macOS with a native liquid glass (NSGlassEffectView) frame effect, similar to Ghostty's appearance. It layers a custom Cocoa patch on top of Homebrew's emacs-plus@31 formula, adding new frame parameters like ns-glass-material, ns-glass-tint-opacity, and ns-alpha-glyphs-alpha. Installation is available via a Homebrew tap or manual build from source, with an accompanying Emacs Lisp configuration module and interactive commands to toggle and adjust the glass effect. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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