Terminal Background

[MaCCa]

Hey, well discovered gentoo the other day and during the install process the background of the terminal looked awesome, i have also seen Lycoris have custom terminal window backgrounds, i was wondering if i can do this on icewm redhat 8. I would like to make it transparent so it shows my desktop, or even beable to post in a new picture, any sujjestions ?

[rid3r]

Aterm (http://freshmeat.net/projects/aterm/?topic_id=158) , or Eterm (http://freshmeat.net/projects/eterm/?topic_id=158) probably. Go with aterm, it is easier to install.
Or emerge aterm :confused: :)

[serz]

Oh.. and you may want to know how to use transparency in aterm/Eterm make a search here, you will find it.

[Hayl]

guys, he's not talking about X terminals.

Originally posted by MaCCa
Hey, well discovered gentoo the other day and during the install process the background of the terminal looked awesome, i have also seen Lycoris have custom terminal window backgrounds, i was wondering if i can do this on icewm redhat 8. I would like to make it transparent so it shows my desktop, or even beable to post in a new picture, any sujjestions ?

the background of the Gentoo "terminal" you are referring to is actually not a terminal, it is a TTY.

it is acheived with framebuffer and bootsplash. you need a working framebuffer compiled in your kernel and then you need to emerge the bootsplash package and patch your kernel to be able to do bootsplash. there are instructions for this on forums.gentoo.org. the bootsplash patch is a rip-off from SuSE.

you can probably (but maybe not) patch the Red Hat kernel to do bootsplash.

[MaCCa]

ok i tried aterm, got it to go transparent to my desktop, but i think its a pretend transparent, as when i say open it with mozilla in the background, it still shows my desktop, i just want it to show whats on mozilla, because its partly why i want a transpartent xterm so i can do commands from webpages with less hassel

[dkeav]

suse achieves it by using a kernel program called bootsplash-maker

you can check it out at www.bootsplash.org