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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Mark Hill wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 04:26:42PM -0600, Bryan Ericson wrote:
> > Eterm is easy to make transparent.  Open an eterm and do Ctrl + Right Click
> > (at least in v. 0.9).  It will give you a little pop-up menu that you can
> > use to turn transparency on and off, as well as set the pixmap, color,
> > tint, etc...  If you want to make this permanent, then open the menu again
> > and select "Save Settings" (this last bit you have to do as root unless you
> > have write access to your Eterm config files).
> >
> > * Mark Hill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 08:50:26AM +1100, Hurgh wrote:
> > > > Just to add on to Joe's quetsion,
> > > >
> > > > I was also wondering about the side bar thing, and now i know how :), but
> > > > the other thing that i wondered was how to make the terminal windows
> > > > transparent, i got told that i had to use ETerm or something, i tried using
> > > > Eterm but i cant get the background to be transparent.
> > > >
> > > > If there is any other trick or something that i have not been told, i would
> > > > appreciate it if you would be able to help me out.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > -|- Hurgh -|-
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > I add to much grief with getting Eterm to be transparent, so I
> > > downloaded aterm. It's easy to compile and you can make it transparent
> > > with the -tr option. It also has shading etc. aterm is very light memory
> > > wise. It's based on rxvt.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mark Hill - http://www.fero.uklinux.net
>
> For whatever reason, toggling transparancy doesn't work when I use an
> Eterm in bb. It works within other wms, like Enlightenment &
> windowmaker. From what I've read on this list, I have to fix things with
> Esetroot (IIRC). It was all beyond my newbie brain.
> I'm using a v.8.10.0 Eterm at the moment. Perhap v.9.0 is easier to set
> up, or I could try and recompile my current Eterm.
>
> Thanks & regards.
>

I've tried in the past to get this to work in blackbox also, but was
unable to succeed. I set the background with Esetroot, but the
transparency option worked incorrectly if at all (can't remember exactly
the result). I eventually gave up on the issue.

xOr
- -- 
I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
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