How do you get a terminal in your background?

[kuber]

I see this a lot on peoples desktop screenshots.. Basically a transparent full screen sized windowless terminal... So how do you set a term like that?

Thanks,
kuber

[binaryDigit]

Eterm -g 130x45+0+0 -f white -O -W --menubar off --scrollbar off -x

that will give you an eterm with transparency enable the menu bar off the scrollbar off and -x is a borderless window.

[ 10 February 2001: Message edited by: binaryDigit ]

[kuber]

Hmmm... What is the -W supposed to do? I get an unrecognized message...

[X_console]

From "man Eterm"


-W, --watch-desktop
In a pseudo-transparent Eterm, this will watch the
desktop for changes to the image, Eterm moving to a
different desktop, etc. Use with the transparency
options below.


What version of Eterm are you using? Maybe it doesn't support that option.

[teeitup]

How would you make that window display console messages?
As root it's a snap.
How do you allow a user to see them?

I always come up with "Couldn't open console" messages. Same command string works fine in root's .xsession file.

:confused:

[bdl]

Personally I prefer aterm (http://aterm.sourceforge.net), it allows complete transparency as well as a few other custom options.

[X_console]

Originally posted by teeitup:
How would you make that window display console messages?
As root it's a snap.
How do you allow a user to see them?

I always come up with "Couldn't open console" messages. Same command string works fine in root's .xsession file.

:confused:


This is because /dev/console probably only has read/write permissions to root. You can do "chmod 666 /dev/console" to fix this. Also, you'll need to add the -C option to Eterm as well as making sure that /dev/console is one of the logging destinations in /etc/syslog.conf

Don't forget to "kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/syslogd.pid)" if you modify /etc/syslog.conf

[kaatss]

If you are using Eterm, first run the program "Esetroot" to set your background picture. I dont remember the directory so please find it out.

Then start your Eterm with the percentage of darkness you want. Sorry...I forgot that option too. U can find that out in the manual page.

Hope this helps...