[Gllug] Transparent Terminal

Jan Minar jjminar at FastMail.FM
Mon Nov 29 21:16:47 UTC 2004


On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:49:13PM -0000, Morris, Simon wrote:
>    I've already seen the transparent features of gnome-terminal, aterm etc
>    but what I'm looking for is a truely transparent terminal :)
> 
>    Not one that shows the desktop wallpaper but one that shows me the
>    contents of the underlying window.... Something like iTerm
>    (http://iterm.sf.net) on OS X

AFAIK, this is not that easily done in X (certainly much harder than in
the OS X's window system).

Cheers,
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