On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:34:06PM +0100, Joao Pedro Franco e Silva wrote:
> On 30-May-2001 vester wrote:
> > one thing i've been trying to do is to have pseudo-transparent
> > terminals...i am on debian woody/sid and i've got the newest version of
> > the blackbox package installed and i cannot get eterm 0.9.1 to be
> > transparent. transparency works fine under enlightenment but in blackbox
> > it always displays a background image and toggle transparency in the menu
> > has no effect...
> >
>
> I'm no expert with BlackBox, but I'm using aterm (transparent), and I think
> this as something to do with the theme's "rootCommand"...
Indeed, that is probably the problem. eterm watches for changes to
certain properties of the root window to occur; these properties
are specific to eterm and perhaps a few other programs, so many
background setting programs don't support them. esetroot (from
enlightenment) and wmsetbg (from Window Maker) do, but blackbox's
bsetroot doesn't.
If the themes that you use have rootCommands using bsetbg to set
background _images_ (as opposed to blackbox-style textures), the
problem is easy to fix -- you just need to configure bsetbg to
use esetroot or wmsetbg instead of whatever it's using now.
Last I used it, aterm seemed to work just fine with blackbox,
though. Recent rxvt's can be compiled to do transparency too,
but aterm offers additional things like tinting.
Jeff Raven
