command prompt

[medrewsclues]

I saw on a TV show a linux user who seemed to have a command prompt on his desktop with no window frmes or nothing, I could still see the background and icons and such. I cant seem to find any settings to make this work in kde or gnome. I appreciate your time and help. Thankyou.

[z0mbix]

probably just running a transparent terminal with no borders/frames. Eterm and Aterm can do that amongst others :)

[mrBen]

Generally your console prog will allow such functionality. Aterm and Eterm are the ones most used and you should be able to set options when you start them. I think Konsole also allow transparency and you can delete borders and the like. If you do a man <consoletype> it will show you what all the options are. It'll probably end up being something like:

mrbenterm --no-border --no-menu --transparent

Once you've worked out that, you need to change the execution command for your icons/menu options so that they execute it in the right way.