Terminals w/ Xft and BG image support?

95se · 11-10-2004, 01:05 AM

Does anyone know any good terminals with bot Xft and BG picture support? Xterm supports Xft, but no background images. Aterm supports background images but not Xft... I finally got X.Org X11R6.8.1 installed, and the transparency and shadows and fading effects and everything are beautiful. But Aterm's fonts are just ugly, but I would really like a background picture

Hammett · 11-10-2004, 05:50 AM

Try out Eterm, you can use truetype fonts with it

95se · 11-10-2004, 12:15 PM

Do I have to get the CVS? I just recompiled Eterm and when I try with the new naming conventions (ex. Verdana-10) it just says it can't the font

There doesn't seem to be a special switch for truetype fonts like in Xterm either.

Hammett · 11-10-2004, 01:55 PM

You must use the full font name provided by xfontsel ( -microsoft-verdana-medium-r-normal--10-120-100-100-p-0-iso8859-15) for example, not just Verdana-10.

terminator · 11-16-2004, 12:13 AM

That's not true freetype font support. It just uses the bitmap font in the freetype fonts. You can try mrxvt, which natively supports XFT, plus many more features. It also supports Xorg's translucent window, meaning you can specify the opacity degree at startup and dynamically adjust it if you wish.

Hammett · 11-16-2004, 05:45 PM

EDIT: Wrong posting. I had several tabs opened and I posted in the wrong one