transparent window manager

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 
>>>>>Looks great, how is it done? Set a 32-bit PNG as a background or 
>>>>>something? Is this portable to other applications? If not it should be - 
>>>>>transparency could actually be usable!
>>>>
>>>>You'll need to change toolkits first (the xterm hack is really awfull
>>>>btw). But besides the eye-candiness factor, what would be the benefit?
>>
>>The benefit is having the semi-transparent terminal, which I've found
>>useful when working in several different windows at once, but the text
>>is much more readable since it's opaque.
> 
> It's fun for two or three minutes, but you'll get frustrated real soon.
> If you ever tried to work with a transparent terminal window displayed
> over a browser with a busy website (advert gifs), you'll know how nice
> opaque black background can be. ;-)
> 
> You can try this easily on OS X if you happen to have a Mac around.

Actually, I've been using translucent terminals (Terminal + xfwm4
compositor + transd) for several months now, and it's incredibly useful.

	-brian

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