aterm transparency problem

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eagle_cz · Post by **eagle_cz** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 10:27 pm

i found a lot of tips, how to run aterm on the BBS

but non of them is transparent on my frontend (wmaker here)

i did here that there is some problem with ncurses...

any tip anyone ?

dkaplowitz · Post by **dkaplowitz** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:11 pm

Did you set transparency in your command to start aterm?

I used to use:

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aterm -transparent -shading 30 -loginShell -foreground white &

iKlez · Post by **iKlez** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:29 pm

perhaps I leave my ~/.Xdefault, interests you in the subject of the transparencies, so single sees publishing it to fit it to your pleasures:

aterm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-130-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15
aterm*cursorColor: blue
aterm*colorMode: true
#aterm*pointerColor: white
#aterm*pointerColor2: white
aterm*borderWidth: 0
aterm*tinting: #ffffff
aterm*loginShell:true
aterm*transparent:true
aterm*shading: 95
aterm*background:black
aterm*foreground:Grey
aterm*scrollBar:false
aterm*fade: 85
#aterm*font:-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-m-*-iso8859-15
aterm*saveLines:4500
aterm*geometry: 80x25
aterm*truetintingType: True
!
! colors
!
aterm*color0: rgb:00/00/00
aterm*color1: rgb:cc/66/66
aterm*color2: rgb:66/cc/66
aterm*color3: rgb:cc/cc/66
aterm*color4: rgb:66/66/cc
aterm*color5: rgb:cc/66/cc
aterm*color6: rgb:66/cc/cc
aterm*color7: rgb:cc/cc/cc
aterm*color8: rgb:63/33/33
aterm*color9: rgb:ff/99/99
aterm*color10: rgb:99/ff/99
aterm*color11: rgb:ff/ff/99
aterm*color12: rgb:99/99/ff
aterm*color13: rgb:ff/99/ff
aterm*color14: rgb:99/ff/ff
aterm*color15: rgb:ff/ff/ff

eagle_cz · Post by **eagle_cz** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 10:43 am

thanks for tips guys, but non of them work.

what Ncurses do you use ?

may be i shloud say, that i expect to see ceontent of window bellow and not background

eagle_cz · Post by **eagle_cz** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 10:56 am

ok imsorry so transparency agains background image now work...

is it possible to see content of window under active window?

theBlackDragon · Post by **theBlackDragon** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 11:22 am

eagle_cz wrote:ok imsorry so transparency agains background image now work...

is it possible to see content of window under active window?

No it's not, at least not with regular XFree, you'd have to use freedesktop.org's xserver to get true transparency...

HTH

eagle_cz · Post by **eagle_cz** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 11:34 am

thanks for advice