if you take a look at the screenshot here:

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show...38fad8849f8df9

you will see there is almost like a virtual terminal open there, how do you do that?

my guess would be that it uses some sort of karamba or gdesklets widget, this is cool...

You can do it with Eterm & Konsole and probably other terminals. From this thread using Eterm:

This works well if you use fluxbox [edit: sorry, should work with most or any window managers really] as your window manager (just set its layer as 'desktop' and save it so it is always behind other windows).

For Konsole set the schema to transparent and remove options for showing the scroll bar etc and view as full screen mode (ctrl+shift+f) - in kde before you do this right click on the title bar and select the option for 'view behind other screens' or whatever it is then press ctrl+shift+f to view as full screen (you won't be able to right click the desktop unless you press 'ctrl+shift+f' again. It's possilbe to launch konsole with certain options that might limit the terminals size (like with Eterm). I prefer it with Eterm though Eterm doesn't seem to allow cut'n'paste (handy sometimes for urpmi )

This is my old kde desktop with a transparent konsole

thanks

I was asking the same question not so long ago so it's not really my 'code'. Pretty nice effect though

Whichever terminal you use you can resize it with the geometry option (I'm using --geometry 90x40+0+0'' with Eterm which doesn't take up too much desktop space (so i can right click for desktop options). Good way to launch it is just to create an option in menudrake.

Slightly off topic you can add aliases to your .bashrc (hidden file in your home directory) and launch programmes like firefox by typing 'ff &' instead of typing 'mozilla-firefox &' or whatever. From this thread (again, I can't take credit, but it's a pretty nice feature):

So my .bashrc would read: