Terminal Transparency

[Quarx]

I've gotten kinda envious of some screenshots & I've just gotta be a follower on this one. Using the transparent switch on either Eterm or aterm is wrong. I think what I'm looking for is alpha or gamma shifting. But i could be wrong. I'm just looking to use a solid color (no need for an image ) to be see thru, so that when I move it the see-thru-ness is exactly what's behind it. Any suggestions?

[Hayl]

for aterm i think what you are looking for is the -tint switch.

man aterm for more info.

[mrBen]

IIRC (and II read you right) aterm does not support the feature whereby you can see the other windows behind the terminal, only the background.

I think Eterm might support this, but I am not sure.

[Quarx]

Great aterm is out then. The Eterm FAQ & docs are awful, saying nothing about this except the C stuff (At least let me get it up and running B4 I try to program my own). So, if someone has the info, i'd appreciate. The other method is simply to send secret emails to those whose shots i envy. I choose to be overt in this case.

[bskahan]

none of the terminal programs:
xterm, konsole, gnome-terminal, aterm, rxvt, Eterm, or mlterm

can do "real" transparency, all of them just grab the rootwindow background and use that themselves. aterm can tint the background image by applying a color filter.

[sarah31]

so if i understand you correctly you want a solid coloured terminal background that is also see through? I have coloured tinted terminals with eterm and the switch i use for this is --cmod-green 71 --cmod-blue 71 and --cmod-red 216. this, for example give one a red terminal and adjusting the values will give you various other colours. using the -O switch will give you the transparency you want.