On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jeff Raven wrote:
> 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.
>
how do i configure bsetbg to use esetroot? i *think* that it currently
uses xv (does that make sense?) at least i had to install the xv package
in order to get bsetbg to work, thus my assumption.
anyway, thanks for your help!
best,
vester
