hey, I want a terminal that will change with my theme, I have heard that "Eterm" is good for that, but i cant find a slack package that works for it (theres an 8.1, but it doesnt work in my computer, it keeps on failing to find a library I already have), and I tried the source install and it keeps failing (the ./configure works, but make fails about half way through).

so to my question: Is there any easier to install terminal application that will change with my theme? Most inportantly I want transparency.

I installed aterm recently and it was very easy... It has transparency

Well,

I don't know a real explicit answer for your question but I do have a transparent terminal working...

I'm using Gnome 2.4.0 (Slack 9.1). The terminal app I'm using is gnome-terminal.

If you choose Edit->Current Profile then click the Effects tab in gnome-terminal you should see that you have option for "transparent background" with slider to adjust transparency level.

Here's a link to my desktop showing how mine looks.

May not be just what your looking for but maybe give you some ideas?

Cheers,
Bob

I agree with poster above.....in KDE usuing konsole term,just edit preferences and its transparent.Slack 9.1 btw.

You probably have the classic problem with the libast library. Does it spit out this during configure?If so, here's the work around.

-brain_bucket

nope, its not lib AST (Assorted Spiffy Stuff) I installed that before I tried to install Eterm.

Please post any error messages. What binary it fails to find?

I use rxvt. It has transparency and the possibility to set an xpm image in background.
It has 3 different scrollbars and the Next-style one is very good (do you know xterm
scrollbar?? ). Furthermore, it' really lightweight.
You can configure it through ~/.Xdefaults.
Slackware already provide it.

how do I make rxvt transparent?

And you said it has a scrollbar? Is that an option you have to choose or something?

'e1000$ rxvt -ip'

I dont care what anyone says, I love a transparent console, and anything else I can make transparent, I lends a hand to the unified look and feel.

Have fun.

Tarts

ok cool, that helps, now another problem, I read the Man page and i cant figure out how to change the color of the font it uses

cause black font on a dark red background isnt easy to see

'e1000$ rxvt -ip -fg <color>

Tarts

The best way to configure rxvt permanently is trough the file ~/.Xdefaults (or ~/.Xresources),
my settings are:


Rxvt*geometry: 80x46
Rxvt*background: black
Rxvt*foreground: green
Rxvt*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15
Rxvt*boldFont: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15
Rxvt*internalBorder: 4
Rxvt*scrollstyle: next
Rxvt*scrollBar_right: true
Rxvt*saveLines: 1500
Rxvt*loginShell: true
Rxvt*cursorColor: red

Rxvt*color0: black
Rxvt*color1: red3
Rxvt*color2: #00a900
Rxvt*color3: #ffbb00
Rxvt*color4: blue
Rxvt*color5: magenta3
Rxvt*color6: cyan
Rxvt*color7: gray100
Rxvt*color8: gray40
Rxvt*color9: red
Rxvt*color10: green
Rxvt*color11: yellow
Rxvt*color12: #0055ff
Rxvt*color13: magenta
Rxvt*color14: #00dfef
Rxvt*color15: white


every entry is a resource, see manual page...
Remember to update the database resources with

xrdb -merge .Xdefaults
every time you change .Xdefaults .

Good luck

IMO Aterm is the best, closely followed by rxvt. Eterm eats memory and compared to aterm it is very slow (a simple test, get the cmatric program (a small screensaver for console) then maximize a aterm and run cmatrix inside it. Now do the same with Eterm. You will be amazed how much slower Eterm is!). Second thing, slackware 9.1 totally removed enlightenment and anything that has to do with enlightenment. Eterm is part of enlightenment, this menas you will have to soend a LOT of time getting enblightenment to work in order to get Eterm to work nicely.
My suggestion, get aterm, and read the README before installing, as well as ./configure --help and enable all interesting things. Aterm has fast transparency, shading and fading when looses focus, color tint on transparent background and it's still fater than gnome-terminal/console/Eterm. Ooh yeah, it can use XPM or PNG images as background as well. It's a neta little thing!
Did i convince you yet?

-NSKL

Okay, I understand how to make rxvt transparent, but how about without a dragging toolbar? Basically i want something like a floating text on my desktop.

-GSD