Eterm transparency and other issues

ricardof · 03-19-2005, 12:22 PM

Hi im trying to make my Eterm transparent giving the --trans flag but it comes out not transparent and with a black background... also with a shell appearence of bash-2.05b$ can someone help me out..

also the Esetroot command gices an error something like this:

X Error of failed request: BadColor (invalid Colormap parameter) ...

iim setting the background using bsetbg that may be the transparecy problem i think!

Slackware 10 and fluxbox!

comprookie2000 · 03-19-2005, 12:49 PM

Post your Esetroot command.are you using startx?For the bash prompt;
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork.../l-tip-prompt/

ricardof · 03-19-2005, 12:59 PM

Esetroot command is:

Esetroot /path/to/image

the bash format i guess its easy to correct... but can it be the Esetroot issue thats messing up te transparency ?

comprookie2000 · 03-19-2005, 02:43 PM

Esetroot should work,I use Esetroot -center or Esetroot -scale /my/image.jpg
Esetroot is included with Eterm.May be a problem with Eterm,where did you get Eterm,did you compile it from source?What happens when you start eterm go to background and then toggle transparency?

ricardof · 03-19-2005, 08:03 PM

ok i got the Esetroot working.. tryied Esetroot -s /path/image.jpg

worked...

but still i get no transparent Eterm

ironwalker · 03-19-2005, 09:08 PM

Eterm -O -x -f cyan --scrollbar=false --buttonbar=false

text color cyan
no scrollbar
no buttonbar
add
-g 120x65+45+5
for size(change to whatever size you want)

AustinMarton · 11-02-2007, 09:12 PM

I also cannot get transparency to work with Eterm? I'm running 'Eterm -trans' but I always just get random backgrounds.

I know it's something to do with 'Esetroot', but I can't find any command for no image at all...

comprookie2000 · 11-03-2007, 11:13 AM

open Eterm and go to background --> toggle transparency then;
Eterm --> save user settings and save theme settings