Transparent Background

[Wolfman_Jack_55]

I have seen some screenshots from Mandrakes web site where people have transparent or an image in the background of their console, how is that done?

[Mountainman]

As far as what? How do we get a transparent Xterm window? You need a program called Eterm or a newer one called Aterm. How do we change the desktop background? Its under display setting I think.

[slayer17]

Download Eterm. There are themes for it one that is good is called glass. The transparent backgorund is achieved by a drop menu or by typing Eterm -t trans. Either way will work, for beginners start with eterm 8.* it is a lot easier.

[freaker]

for my trans Eterm, I give this command

>Eterm -O -W --borderless --menubar=no --scrollbar=no

that will refresh itself to the desktop if moved, make it transparent, no borders, no menubar, and no scrollbar

If you are running Gnome, you must run Esetroot first, and set the bg for Eterm
>Esetroot /path/to/currentwallpaper/foo.jpg
then run the Eterm command, that should do it for you


freaker :cool:

[ 06 March 2001: Message edited by: freaker ]