One more about xfdesktop

[Jonathan Gardner]

On Wednesday, the 22th day of January, in the year of our Lord 2003, at
09:33 AM the esteemed person of letters, Net Llama! quoth:

NL> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Jonathan Gardner wrote:
NL> > On Tuesday, the 21th day of January, in the year of our Lord 2003,
NL> > at 08:13 PM the esteemed person of letters, Net Llama! quoth:
NL> >
NL> > NL> On 01/21/03 20:11, Jonathan Gardner wrote:
NL> > NL> > On Tuesday, the 21th day of January, in the year of our Lord
NL> > NL> > 2003, at 09:04 AM the esteemed person of letters, Net Llama!
NL> > NL> > quoth:
NL> > NL> >
NL> > NL> > NL> aterm isn't misbehaving in that fashion for me.  its
NL> > NL> > NL> transparent all the way.
NL> > NL> > NL>
NL> > NL> >
NL> > NL> > Well here's a screen shot of what I'm talking about. Not a
NL> > NL> > total screen just the aterm without the window dressing.
NL> > NL> > You'll notice the scroll bar is still showing transparent, but
NL> > NL> > the body looks like a red tint over a black background.
NL> > NL>
NL> > NL> did you use too much tinting or shading perhaps?
NL> > NL>
NL> >
NL> > I didn't specify any "amout" just "-tint red" and it DID work at
NL> > first. That's more of the odd part.
NL> 
NL> So what's the full aterm command that you're using?
NL> 

OK here's the command:
aterm -tr -trsb -tint red -fg white -sl 500

I did some experimenting. I thoroughly restarted X by telinit(ing) to 3
and back to 5 and then tried rebooting totally but when I've got xfdesktop
running the aterm body is just displaying a blank tinted background while
the scrollbar shows the background image under it (weird), but when I'm
running xfbd4 instead I get perfect transparency. So the problem is
somewhere in the interaction between my aterm and the xfdesktop on my
system, but I'm at a loss as to what it is.

Jonathan


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