From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 17 9:58:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from godzilla.fxprojects.com (godzilla.fxprojects.com [64.81.56.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA3BB37B41B for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 09:58:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from michael@localhost) by godzilla.fxprojects.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id fAHHwKN38946 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 09:58:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michael) Message-Id: <200111171758.fAHHwKN38946@godzilla.fxprojects.com> Subject: Re: Transparent Xterm To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 09:58:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: from "Christian Weisgerber" at Nov 17, 2001 12:17:04 PM From: "Michael McCaffrey" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > shanon loveridge wrote: > > > I know this is a little off topic but could someone > > tell what I need to do to make the XTerm have that > > nice transparent background? > > xterm itself doesn't support this gimmick, however there are a > variety of xterm/rxvt-derivatives in the ports collection that do, > e.g. x11/aterm. > > Note that none of them are really transparent. They only copy the > respective part of the root window into their background. If you > have overlapping windows, the result is somewhat jarring. i kinda like that. it's like having X-Ray-Vision. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message