Robin Haswell wrote: > Hm is that a joke or a serious suggestion? Oh, this is absolutely serious. There is a hack of xterm using this technique and xfwm4 supports ARBG window very well. Look here, the xterm is translucent while the text is totally opaque: http://www.xfce.org/~olivier/preview/ARGB-xterm.png Cheers, Olivier.