> On several of the screenshots from *.themes.org have consoletext,
> seamingly from tty1, or whereever they're logged in from, and it scrolls
> up the screen...
>
> I understand that this is probably done with some kind of terminal
> emulator, with transparent background, and colored text... But I can't
> seem to figure out how to go about this... I've tried adding stuff in
> .xinitrc, without luck, tried with rxvt -inherentpixmap blah, blah...
Try "root-tail" (see http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/root-tail.html). It works
like tail -f. I use it on /var/log/messages.
Hope this helps.
Sander
