Transparent Terminals

[Biju Chacko]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:28:57 -0500, Christopher wrote:

>     Is it possible to make the terminals transparent to the
> point where the background of the terminal is the same as the
> background/wallpaper while making the text a different color? I have
> looked into the documentation to no avail.

xfterm is just a wrapper script around the cmd given by $TERM_CMD. Specify a
terminal like rxvt, aterm, Eterm, konsole or gnome-terminal in that env var. All
of those support transparency.

> On a second note, is it possible to have a different background for
> each work area? If this has been documented someplace else, please
> point me in the right direction.

It's not possible now, but we hope to do it later.

-- b

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