very simple terminal question

[blakelock]

I'm a complete newbie but have coded a (very) little. My simple question is: what's the difference betweeen an X-term and an E-term and any other common terminals? Is it the language they understand or the functionality they have or what? And another (silly/superficial) question is: can I get that cool translucent effect that I see in many of the themes for any/all of these different terminals?

thanks for giving my petty question a moment,

[z0mbix]

The terminals just have different features, like Eterm supports transparancy and background images where xterm doesn't. The shell governs what syntax is used. The default for GNU/Linux is bash, but there are many others like ksh , tcsh und zsh.

[blakelock]

thanks very much.

[Energon]

What's funny is that Eterm (and xchat, as it just took the code from Eterm) isn't really transparent. What it does is grab the pixmap at the root window (desktop) and set the main window background to that pixmap in the area that the window exists in, so it appears transparent, but (and very obviously when you move it over other windows), it isn't transparent at all.

Just a bit of funny trivia... :)