Aterm and transparency

[Jack Coates]

> 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).
>
> Of course, it's really only usable with tinting, and I usually select a
> not-too-bright monocolour background
> ( sorta like: http://lunar-linux.org/?q=node/view/107 ). Aterm does that
> pretty good.
>
> if you want to try it here's my .Xdefaults for aterm:
>
> aterm*background: black
> aterm*foreground: gray
> aterm*shading: 35
> aterm*fading: 75
>
> sofar
>

I do this too, with different color schemes for different machines and
such. My beef is with true transparency, not "take a whack of desktop
wallpaper and stick that in" :)
-- 
Jack At Monkeynoodle.Org:
It's A Scientific Venture...