[dundee] Background image for console

[Andrew Clayton]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:55:30 -0700 (PDT), Lee Hughes wrote:

> i may be brain dead here, but has any got truley transparent terminal
> windows going, i.e i want to see firefox through the background
> window of my termial?

IIRC Compiz does this out the box. Or just run a simple
compositing manager like xcompmgr and then use transset to set a 
windows translucency. This functionality has been around since the
COMPOSITE extension in Xorg 6.8 or something.