transparant terminal

LILLY4117 · 08-30-2003, 02:51 AM

I am trying to make my aterm terminal semitransparant, ive enabled (unchecked) the transparancy option in /home/my_name/.icewm/preferences

I run aterm (aterm -rv -tr) and all i get is a terminal with a strange black n white pattern...
Ive searched google for help and found no info.
What am i doing wrong?

darthtux · 08-31-2003, 06:33 PM

If you installed it by source, did you compile with the --enable-transparency option?

Do you have Eterm or wterm? Is there transparency working okay?

wysurya · 08-31-2003, 07:32 PM

you can try this :

aterm -transparent -shading 30 -loginShell -foreground white

LILLY4117 · 09-02-2003, 11:24 AM

i had no luck with above but thanks anyway.

I finally got it working by typing: aterm -rv -tr -trsb -sh 30
(dont ask me why this particular combination worked (im a newbie

)

I tried eterm (and got it transparent) but i didnt like it, too much menus. I want a clean look.
+ i want to use the commandline as much as possible...

darthtux · 09-02-2003, 11:35 AM

My eterm is version 0.9 and the menu is not at the top anymore. You
ctrl+right click
to get to the menu. I like it because you can
Shift + the + or - on the numeric keypad to change your font and through the menu can change the brightness of your background. Aterm is cool too.

devilock · 09-02-2003, 11:51 AM

just use konsole.

settings-schema-transparent for mc (thats my fav)