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I want to run the following command on startup to get a nice transparent console on my background everytime i startup,
Eterm -O --buttonbar no --scrollbar no -x -f white -g 125x50+0+0 --font2
the forums say to edit the rc.local file in /etc but even though i logged in as root and vim and then editted to the following, i reboot, and it makes no difference.....
Is this related to me having to define which shell i'm using or something?
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
touch /var/lock/subsys/local
Eterm -O --buttonbar no --scrollbar no -x -f white -g 125x50+0+0 --font2
Do you actually start in X or issue the startx command? Using rc.local in either case won't do anything for you since this is eterm specific setup for a terminal. You'll need to add this eterm line from the launcher on whatever desktop you use or set it up to run from your .bashrc or .bash_login files for your particular user.
K, i tried adding the Eterm line to the .bashrc file in my home directory and saved. Was gonna wait till i restarted but while i was opening a new konsole, it seemed to want to repeat loading Eterm over and over again! ..... had to close it all down and close the window from which i started konsole. I could see the transparent windows loading on top of one and another..... i wanted just the one lol.
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