Hi Richard,

Richard Forth wrote:
> I click to focus on the terminal window, then ALT  + Mousewheel  (Up or
> Down I cant remember) to make the  terminal  window transparent so I can
> watch the movie while still working at the CLI effectively fullscreen.
> Again this looks fantastic until I let go of either the mouse or the ALT
> key, at which point what was opaque showing behind the transparent
> terminal now shows like snowy interferance.
> 
> Yet if I CTRL + ALT and move the cube about slowly, the opacity works
> again and I can see the ls -lR going crazy and I can see the movie
> behind the terminal window playing fine. As soon as I return the cube so
> that I am back on the desktop again, the snow-like interferance returns.
> 
> Any ideas? Any one having similar problems?
You may want to look into the video output method Gmplayer is using.  I
know this is the -vo option for the CLI mplayer, so have a look around.
 You either want xv or x11 IIRC (though I can't recall which...).


Dan

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