On 11/3/07, Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RTFM. And besides, transparency is a stupid distraction, and > the pseudo-transparency that you're probably referring to, an > ugly kludge that doesn't quite work. If you're part of the "oooh! > shiny!" herd that absolutely wants such anti-readability effects, > I recommend Eterm, or something else that lets you have a terminal > background image (possibly using the root window background image > set with Esetroot), instead of touching crap that uses the > pseudo-transparency kludge with a kilometre long stick.
Indeed-- most backgrounds don't provide good readability unless you tint them. Backgrounds are mostly just eyecandy and a waste of time. However, whenever I feel an urge to have eyecandy (this generally wears off in a day), I run "urxvt -tr -fg gray +sb". That's the pseudo-transparency kludge though. Generally "xterm -fg gray -bg black" is as shiny as you should get. -- Samuel 'Shardz' Baldwin Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639
