Transparent Terminal BG's

[Mithix]

Kind of a stupid question, I guess, and one that's not nearly as important as others I see here, but it's something I've been trying to hunt down for months with little success. I don't really have a preference as far as terminals go, rxvt and eterm seem nice. Konsole is a but klunky. Other than that, I don't really mind. But what's irking me is that I can't set the background to transparent for any of them. Eterm has its menu and an option "Toggle Transparency," but it doesn't do anything. Btw, I'm on Mandrake 7.2 and using Blackbox. Any suggestions? Thanks,

Mithix.

[ericb]

Eterm has tons of options for setting up how it looks. i have one that runs full screen with no borders and no menus while being transparent so it is just a big terminal for one desktop.

you can find info on all of the options in the Eterm man page 'man Eterm' that's where i got it all from

[Mithix]

Well, I've got the latest stable version of Eterm (0.8.10 I think), running fine, but whenever I select "Toggle transparency" from the menu or try running "Eterm --trans" (what the man page says to do) it doesn't work. Any ideas why that might be?

[spickus]

You've got to set the background image using Esetroot -s /path to background image

[Shadoglare]

I always thought transparancies were just a Gnome-compatible thing...
Have never gotten it to work under anything else anyway <shrug>

[Mithix]

Originally posted by spickus:
You've got to set the background image using Esetroot -s /path to background image
Wow, you lost me there. :D In a console, I type "Esetroot -s /path"? Or, what path exactly should I use? I thought that because I was using a transparent background, that I didn't need to specify a bg image?

[dante_d]

I just run Konsole (default terminal for KDE).

Select options --> schema --> transparent console.

That's it.

[Mithix]

Heh, dante, tried that. Just gives me white on black. =\

[X_console]

Here's how you do it with Eterm. First find out where your background image is stored in. Let's say it's /images/background.jpg Now run Esetroot on it:

Esetroot /images/background.jpg

Now you can run "Eterm --trans" to get full transparency. I suggest reading the manual for Eterm to get other options like shading, tint, borders, menus, etc.

[Mithix]

Thanks. You mean the desktop's background image i take it?

[The King Ant]

aterm and gnome-terminal also both support transparencies. I've used aterm with a shaded bg without gnome (just straight afterstep), so that works.

[Mithix]

Ugh. =P
Where exactly is Blackbox's default bg image located, anyone know?
Thanks...

[Lorithar]

*chortles*

This is something I've just managed myself
a) you need Esetroot to set the background
with the command listed above.

b) I use my own style ..at the bottom of the
bottom of the style file I have the Esetroot
command pointed at my background which happens
to be in ~/.blackbox/Backgrounds
c) in my eterm exec statement in the menu I
turn on transparency (and because of the colours
involved, I set my text to bright yellow)

d) your results may vary.

[Mithix]

Heh© I'm trying to use my own style, but whenever I edit ~/©blackboxrc and quit X and come back, ©blackboxrc has been changed back to what it was before© =\


And I still can't find BlackBox's default background image© =P

[ 04 February 2001: Message edited by: Mithix ]

[X_console]

Can't modify your .blackboxrc while blackbox is running. It won't save it. You need to get out of blackbox, and then modify it using the command line.

[Mithix]

Heh, it works. Nice. Eterm is transparent, my theme is lookin beautiful. Thanks all. :D