keeping a transparent terminal in the background

adizzle · 09-27-2004, 01:50 AM

Ive looked for hours and cant seem to find an answer...

I've gotten eterm to be borderless, menuless, and transparent, but i want it to be always behind other windows so that its kind of like part of the desktop. Like when i click it i dont want it to be brought to the front and cover other windows. Is this possible with eterm and if not is it possible with any other terminal?

Im running KDE 3.2 on Suse 9.1 Professional. Im willing to switch WMs if i need to in order to get this to work.

Baldrick65 · 09-27-2004, 06:36 AM

Activate the window menu (Alt-F3), select Advanced, then Keep Below Others. I just tried it and clicking on the eterm, doesn't raise it above other windows.

HTH
Baldrick

scuzzman · 09-27-2004, 07:06 AM

I can get it transparent - how'd you get it borderless and menuless?

Baldrick65 · 09-27-2004, 07:20 AM

Quote:

I can get it transparent - how'd you get it borderless and menuless?

Borderless is easy:
Activate the window menu (Alt-F3), select Advanced, then No Border. Menuless ???

Baldrick

scuzzman · 09-27-2004, 07:43 AM

Meaning getting rid of the
Eterm Font Background Etc Etc
menus

Baldrick65 · 09-27-2004, 07:50 AM

Yeah, I know what menuless means

, I just have no idea how to do it

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Baldrick

adizzle · 09-27-2004, 08:44 AM

this is the command i used to start eterm

Code:

Eterm -O --buttonbar no --scrollbar no -x -f white

Thanx for the help!