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It's terminal was very cool, because, no matter what windows I had open, the terminal could 'x-ray' through them and the terminal background was the same as my desktop's background.
When I set the terminal's background to 'transparent background' it will be transparent that I will see the underlying window.
That would make it transparent to the programs I have open, which is firefox and stuff. I want it to be transparent through the programs, so that I can see my desktop.
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Originally Posted by Arrow2Knee
That would make it transparent to the programs I have open, which is firefox and stuff. I want it to be transparent through the programs, so that I can see my desktop.
erm.. did you actually try it? that option does exactly what you are asking.
No it doesn't, it displays firefox underneath it ...
Here on Ubuntu with the normal terminal too: when another application is running at the same time, I see the other application.
What does have some effect is to put the same image on the background of the terminal as is on the desktop but it is not creating a 'looking through-hole' in the other open applications to show the desktop.
I remember seeeing just that a lot of years ago somewhere else so I understand what you mean (but don't know the answer to your question eather).
Ok I just tried it & you are right.
In gnome2 the it would show the desktop background even with windows in front of it.
So basically you will have to compare terminal scripts in gnome 2 & gnome 3.
I will check it out later, myself because I like that feature also.
I tried to change backgrounds of the terminal Which actually worked but if you change the actual desktop background you end-up with 2 different backgrounds so I'm sure that it's in the script.
I tried to change backgrounds of the terminal Which actually worked but if you change the actual desktop background you end-up with 2 different backgrounds so I'm sure that it's in the script.
I will have to compare the scripts on my machine that has gnome2 with gnome 3 scripts at /usr/share/gnome-terminal/profile-preferences.ui
The shading information starts around line 2226, in gnome 3.
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