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chiatello
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 Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 1:00 am Post subject: transparent term-emulators? |
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ok i was wondering on peoples X desktop lots of times theyll have something
thats a terminal, completely transparent, and it looks like its part of the desktop
anyone know where i can get these? thanks |
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syscrash
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 1:13 am Post subject: |
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Many terminals can do this, including:
gnome-terminal
konsole
aterm
eterm
I can't think of any more off the top of my head, but this should give you a good start. Keep in mind that this is not real transparency, rather pseudo transparency (it only works with your desktop background). |
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MorphiusFaydal
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 1:57 am Post subject: |
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i use aterm and like it...
it has transparency...
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Old Gentooman
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Should you opt for aterm with it's pseudo transparancy feature, be sure to include:
Aterm*transparent: true
among all other parameters of your .Xdefaults and/or .Xresources files.
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TheWart
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:11 am Post subject: |
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I had Eterm, but just switched to gnome-ternminal.
I absolutely love it, as it has faster transparency (when moving the window), is VERY easy to configure, and best of all, has tabbed terminals.
I love it.
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shm
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 3:24 am Post subject: |
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Check out materm. It is a fork of aterm, which has probably the fastest transparency among the terminals, and has tabs (like konsole or gnome-term)
other trans terminals include:
rxvt (development versions.. used to be the fork called wterm)
konsole (has tabs)
Eterm (the original)
gnome-terminal (has tabs)
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dmitchell
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Aterm is nice and light, but I don't use it on a regular basis because it doesn't support anti-aliasing of fonts.
Daniel |
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jaska
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| I use aterm with shine font, does what I need it to do. |
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ronmon
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multi-gnome-terminal hasn't been ported to gtk2 yet, but it rocks. Tabbed terminals, customizable keyboard shortcuts for just about every operation, and variably shaded transparency (uses a slider bar). Gobs of other features too numerous to mention.
It's in portage 'emerge -p multi-gnome-terminal'. |
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