Aterm and tinting

Wynd · 09-30-2003, 09:45 AM

I just downloaded and installed aterm for the transparency. I an running it by typing 'aterm -tr -sh 50', and my background picture that I set with bsetbg is not being displayed in the aterm window. It displays whatever I last set witt bsetroot. However, if I just use 'aterm -tr', the picture displays fine in the aterm window. What am I doing wrong?

Locura · 09-30-2003, 09:50 AM

I would recommend setting the tinting, etc through the ~/.Xresources file. Here is the aterm section of mine:

Code:

# ************************* ATERM ************************* 
Aterm*background:       black
Aterm*foreground:       White
Aterm*scrollBar:        false
Aterm*transparent:      true
Aterm*shading:          40
Aterm*font:             9x15

Just include a line called Aterm*tinting:

You can give it an RGB value or even use one of the many color names in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt.

Using ~/.Xresources will have aterm pull the configurations from that file, and you won't have to call aterm with all those arguments to get the effects you want.

Wynd · 09-30-2003, 10:12 AM

Hmm...apparently all I needed to do was restart X, cause after I did that for something, I brought up an aterm and it had shaded transparency. Oh well