> i m using Eterm and aterm, both can be transparent... (tested with: > blackbox, fluxbox and KDE 3.x)
There seems to be a confusion: Most modern terminal programs (aterm, Eterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, etc.) plus some others (Kopete, gdesklets, etc.) implement "pseudo-transparency". This is achieved by the program grabbing the chunk of background underneath its window, and redisplaying it as its own background. The effect is that of a transparent (or translucent) window, but it is not really transparent: if your "transparent" window is on top of some other window, it will still show the background image, and not the window underneath. Real transparency, or alpha blending, is a more profound feature that makes it possible to have any object have transparency. Because it's implemented by the graphics or window engine (e.g. X11, or Quartz in MacOS X), it allows any application to have transparency, and it is "true transparency": if you place a transparent window over another window, the back window shows through the transparent one, even as it updates. Real transparency does not exist in standard X11. Some other systems, as the aforementioned Fresco, implement it, but are not very stable yet. See number 2 in http://wiki.fresco.org/FrescoVsX. I understood the original poster was asking about true transparency, and the answer is "you can't, not in standard XFree86". What you have seen in the screenshots are pseudo-transparent terminals (which work mostly OK most of the time, and look nice). --Diego -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
