How to create transparent terminals in X

[carbon-12]

OK ive got to ask. How do you guys create terminals(eterm/aterm/xterm) that are transparent and have no borders?

[sharth]

eterm and aterm can do it...

eterm -O or eterm -0 or something, I dunno the borderless commands though.

[Arjay]

If you go into Settings>Schema in the terminal menu you have the option of making it transparent.

Cheers :-)

[cybertron]

eterm -x will get rid of the borders. I'd kinda like to know if there's a way to do it in aterm though, because I had trouble with eterm so I can't use that. Also, -x will not allow you to move or resize the window, so that's something to consider.

[sharth]

in most window managers / desktop environments, alt + drag will move a window...

[cybertron]

Now I really wish eterm had worked for me. The translucent borderless terminals look sweet, and if I could move them too it would be perfect. Interestingly enough, when I resize my aterm window the borders go partially transparent. If I could figure out why I might be able to get it to go the rest of the way:-) Oh well.

[X_console]

Check out the manual for aterm. Pretty much tells you how to do it along with shading and tinting and all that.

[cybertron]

Well, I didn't see it the first time through the man page, but that doesn't mean it isn't there. I'll have to give it another look.

[pezplaya]

look at my signiture.

[cybertron]

I found something about adding Style "name" NoHandles to the /usr/local/share/afterstep/database file, and then starting aterm with 'aterm -T "name"', but it doesn't seem to work to get rid of the borders. Anyone have any ideas?

[carbon-12]

Good stuff. thanx

[carbon-12]

Originally posted by pezplaya
look at my signiture.


" aterm -sr -tr -fg white -sh 40 -bg black +sb"

works great but the windows border is still displayed. Im looking at the man pages right now but cant figure how to disable it.

[hardcore]

for aterm in fluxbox or another *box, append this to your ~/.fluxbox/keys file:

Mod1 d :ToggleDecor

this basically means hold down ALT + d, and you turn off borders.

[lugoteehalt]

works great but the windows border is still displayed. Im looking at the man pages right now but cant figure how to disable it.

Isn't the window manager - icewm, enlightenment, olwm, fvwm2, etc. - always responsible for the borders (and their decoration)?? Does it follow the answer must always be configuring the window manager??:)

[mrBen]

Originally posted by lugoteehalt
Isn't the window manager - icewm, enlightenment, olwm, fvwm2, etc. - always responsible for the borders (and their decoration)?? Does it follow the answer must always be configuring the window manager??:)

Yes.

And yet no.

The window manager is normally responsibly for adding decor to windows, and most WM allow you to turn off decor for some windows.

BUT

Some programs also have an option that allows this - for instance XMMS never shows with window borders. IIRC aterm also has this ability.

[lugoteehalt]

Good stuff!:)

[cybertron]

There does seem to be a way to get aterm to have no borders on its own, but as far as I can tell it requires use of an AfterStep theme and I can't get it to work in KDE. Fortunately, in KDE you can do "kstart -type Override aterm" and that does what I want. It seems to take a little longer than just starting aterm itself, but it's still pretty darn fast. Just in case anyone is interested.

[jymbo]

http://alacombe.tuxfamily.org/misc/

[carbon-12]

Originally posted by jymbo
http://alacombe.tuxfamily.org/misc/

Would I just drop that into the /src folder and compile aterm?

[sharth]

drop it in the source folder, run "patch -p1 blah.patch"

and then compile it normally...

[carbon-12]

thanx
:)