| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
DrWoland
l33t
Joined: 13 Nov 2004
Posts: 603
|
 Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:36 pm Post subject: What's the best looking terminal? |
 |
|
| I'd like to have a term that can do transparency and change fonts, thats really all. My understanding is they all can change fonts. I used aterm in the past with its "slow" transparency, but I was wondering if there's a term that does "REAL" transparency, like show the app beneath it, not just shine through to the desktop. Thanks. |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
r00tzz
Apprentice
Joined: 09 Apr 2004
Posts: 203
Location: Sao Paulo, Brasil
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:38 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| take a look at xorg and composite to do real transparency. then you'll see that any window can have it!! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
DrWoland
l33t
Joined: 13 Nov 2004
Posts: 603
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:39 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| r00tzz wrote: | | take a look at xorg and composite to do real transparency. then you'll see that any window can have it!! |
 Link? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
r00tzz
Apprentice
Joined: 09 Apr 2004
Posts: 203
Location: Sao Paulo, Brasil
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
DrWoland
l33t
Joined: 13 Nov 2004
Posts: 603
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I am failing to find a manual or how-to anywhere... maybe I'm just challenged...
Edit: Seriously, what the fuck? I can't find anything about it anywhere on the xorg website, this forum (btw, we need a new search function stat) or google. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
DrWoland
l33t
Joined: 13 Nov 2004
Posts: 603
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
OMG finally found a doc on this and immediately came all over my screen  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
pussi
l33t
Joined: 08 May 2004
Posts: 727
Location: Finland
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:22 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Code: | | emerge xcompmgr transset |
and add to your corg.conf
| Code: | Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection |
and there you have it.
Just run xcompmgr and then you can set transparency for any window with transset.
mrxvt also supports real transparency via composite without needing to run transset. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
oberyno
Guru
Joined: 15 Feb 2004
Posts: 467
Location: /bin/zsh
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:34 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| pussi wrote: |
mrxvt also supports real transparency via composite without needing to run transset. |
Does mrxvt handle text properly? i.e. not making text transparent when everything else is? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
pussi
l33t
Joined: 08 May 2004
Posts: 727
Location: Finland
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:53 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| oberyno wrote: | | Does mrxvt handle text properly? i.e. not making text transparent when everything else is? |
I'm not sure about that, but it made the window borders also transparent so I think it basically just transsets its own window, so probably not.
Still it's a great terminal with xft support, and lighter than rxvt-unicode. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
bet1m
l33t
Joined: 04 Dec 2004
Posts: 631
Location: Kosova/Prishtine
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
DrWoland
l33t
Joined: 13 Nov 2004
Posts: 603
|
| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:08 am Post subject: |
|
|
Yeah, I found a how-to that wasn't REALLY about it, but had it as part of it. For some reason, google turned up NOTHING relevant. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Desktop Environments
