How to make Konsole transparent...

[amgeex]

Umm... how can I make Konsole's windows transparent? I've seen many pictures with transparent terminals (don't know if its been konsole or eterm or something else) and I would like very much to have my desktop looking as good as those. Does anyone knows how to do this?


Mandrake 9.0, WindowMaker.

:confused:

[Hayl]

it's in one of the preferences menus in konsole.

usually people do it with aterm, Eterm, or xterm.

the man pages for all those tell you how to do it.

[amgeex]

I tried configuring Konsole and the transparency options, but those don't seem to be working. What now?

:confused:

[retsaw]

I think you have to be using KDE for the transparency in Konsole to work, it doesn't work in fluxbox for me. Try using aterm or Eterm if you want transparency.

[shadowrider]

aterm for me is the easiest one to work on.
ex:
aterm -bw 0 -sr -tr +sb -sh 40 -g 71x22 -cr green

but most people have been using eterm. so you might want to try that.

an example for eterm transparency should be something like :

/usr/bin/Eterm -O -x --buttonbar=0 \
--scrollbar=0 -g 160x50+100+100 \
--desktop 2 -f green --ircon-name Terminal

(this was just somebody's terminal)

anway, as hayl suggested, the man pages tell you all.

[amgeex]

I'll be using aterm, checked their site and seemed the best option.

Thanx y'all!

:D