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eyevee99
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 Posted: Sat May 04, 2002 5:46 am Post subject: transparency in aterm |
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I just emerged aterm,I'd read it's good and could also do transparentbackgrounds.
How?
I'v got my EXEC like this.
| Code: | | aterm -rv -tr -trsb -tintype true -cursorColor white -cursorColor2 black -geometry 80x50 |
This loads properly, but the aterm window doesn't appear transparent, it appear exactly the same as my X background. (flat blue).
Dragging it over another window doesn't allow me to see the other window through it etc.
Any help?
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dvNuLL
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| Posted: Sat May 04, 2002 9:27 am Post subject: Well |
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It doesnt do true transparency. It does pseudo-transparencies.
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tvon
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| Posted: Sat May 04, 2002 7:45 pm Post subject: Re: Well |
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| dvNuLL wrote: | | It doesnt do true transparency. It does pseudo-transparencies. |
To clarify, most 'transparent' things in X are really pseudo-transparent which means that they take a copy of the desktop wallapaper and map it to the background of the window, adjusting it properly for the position of the window on the screen.
At some point the dev's of these programs might make use of the XRENDER extension (like the KDE folks did) and make the windows truely transparent.....which would be spiffy, I'm not entirely sure how useful, but spiffy.
In short, you've been spoiled by KDE.
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dice
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| Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 5:51 am Post subject: Re: Well |
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| tvon wrote: | | dvNuLL wrote: | | It doesnt do true transparency. It does pseudo-transparencies. |
To clarify, most 'transparent' things in X are really pseudo-transparent which means that they take a copy of the desktop wallapaper and map it to the background of the window, adjusting it properly for the position of the window on the screen.
At some point the dev's of these programs might make use of the XRENDER extension (like the KDE folks did) and make the windows truely transparent.....which would be spiffy, I'm not entirely sure how useful, but spiffy.
In short, you've been spoiled by KDE.
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Ug... personaly, I'd want an option to keep it using the background-only transparency. I often have multiple "transparent" terminals stacked on top of eachother and it just wouldn't be useable if they were truly transparent.
BTW, another feature I really like about aterm is that you can set it up to fade the terminal when it's not in focus. It looks good and makes it easier to keep track of what you're doing I sat down and read through the man page for aterm, check out my "Terminal" command now 
| Code: | | aterm -ls -fg green -tr -trsb -sh 50 -fade 75 -cr blue -sr -st -si -sl 10000 -tn xterm-color -T Terminal -fn timesnewroman-10 -fb timesnewroman-bold-10 |
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