transparent window manager

[Aaron]

transparent terminals are nifty if you dont have a really busy
background, and a nice readable theme. on the other hand i have a huge
background with lots of small details and colours, and several
diffrent focus points where the light collects, which makes it very
hard to find one place for a terminal that i can see every part of it.
white application backgrounds seem to work fine though.

On 3/14/06, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> 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