im using centos 5.1 i installed fluxbox and trying to make the transparency to work but i can't get it working. even in the fluxbox menu. i know xterm doesnt have transparency i tried downloading eterm and aterm but its not working. theres too many errors in compiling aterm. is there anyone got their transparency working in centos?

It sounds like you're bringing up two separate issues here. The first is Fluxbox transparency. Given that CentOS/Red Hat are not bleeding edge distributions, you may be using a very old version of Fluxbox. The development version of Fluxbox is easy to install, and I've never had problems building it, even on distros with older libraries.

edit: The easiest way to get the devel version is to use their git repository. If you have the git tools, you can get the code thusly:
Run:
To prepare, and then build as normal./edit

Fluxbox does not manage transparency for applications themselves, only for window decorations. So, getting transparency with aterm, eterm, rxvt-unicode, or any other term emulator which suppports it, is a separate issue. These applications can be run with an argument that sets the transparency level, or can be controlled in each user's ~/.Xdefaults file.

i tried that,
it gave me that so i installed libtool. il wait for further details of the installation

From memory, the only other unusual build tool required was automake. Install that, and try again.

by the way, it was a success installing fluxbox. but i have problems in eterm with the xcomposite and other libraries. can't find where to download them