[ale] Transparent xterm

Joseph A Knapka jknapka at earthlink.net
Tue Feb 26 08:42:55 EST 2002


Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> It does the same as gnome-terminal and eterm in that the transparency is
> pseudo, presenting a background from the root image only.

Yes, I've looked at aterm as well as eterm and konsole.
It certainly seems is though true transparency ought
to be easy to do, but I don't know enough about X
programming to conveniently add it to one of the
existing term programs.

Cheers,

-- Joe
 
> keith frost wrote:
> > have you looked at aterm?
> > it can run transparent and shaded.
> >
> > --- Joseph A Knapka <jknapka at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi folks,
> >>
> >>Does anyone know of an X terminal emulator a la
> >>xterm
> >>or Eterm that provides a completely transparent
> >>background?

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