Aterm and transparency

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 05:22:16PM +0200, Auke Kok wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 11:57:21AM +0000, brettholcomb at charter.net wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>><RANT>Talk about an ill-considered piece of eye-candy. And yes, I do have
> >>>an OSX PowerBook as well, though it is my least-favorite computer. True
> >>>transparency rapidly leads to text in another page being visible through
> >>>the text you're reading, which makes it hard to read.</RANT>
> >>>-- 
> >>>Jack At Monkeynoodle.Org:
> >>>It's A Scientific Venture...
> >>>
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>Thank you for the clarification.  Yes, I can see where it could be a 
> >>problem.  I'm going to play with it and see what happens.  I'm climbing a 
> >>little higher on the learning curve <G>.
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >I have to agree with Jack, I can see no good use for transparency
> >except to prove that it can be done.  If I can see what's behind a
> >terminal window I probably can't see what's in the terminal window.
> >
> > 
> >
> 
> Actually I use aterms with dimmed transparency and focus tinting as 
> well, not only does it look good, it also helps me focus because the 
> terminal that has the focus is brighter than the others, which helps you 
> a lot when switching desktops and terminals a lot (what you get from 
> monitoring 10-30 systems for instance).
> 
But the terminal that has the focus has a bright (or different
coloured) frame on my systems anyway so spotting which one is 'live'
is easy.

-- 
Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk)