transparent window manager

[Robin Haswell]

I've been using Eterm's viewport mode on quite busy backgrounds for 3 
years now. I find that it makes the desktop look a little less bland if 
I don't have lots of blank boxes with text in them everywhere. Of course 
the transparency is shaded though.

-Rob

Aaron wrote:
> 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
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