Re: Setting transparent xterms

1998-04-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And what about the kind of transparency that is used by programs such as > xeyes? I believe this is not transparency, but shaped windows. These are real "holes". They are not part of the windows, so you can't write text on them. "blast" is a nice dem

Re: Setting transparent xterms

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Klas Lindberg wrote: > > > > Last I heard, transparent backgrounds were not possible (but this may or > > > may not be true now, as I'm using X less and less...) But RxVT, which is > > > > Take a look at the enlightenment wm (www.e

Re: Setting transparent xterms

1998-04-16 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Klas Lindberg wrote: > > Last I heard, transparent backgrounds were not possible (but this may or > > may not be true now, as I'm using X less and less...) But RxVT, which is > > Take a look at the enlightenment wm (www.enlightenment.org if I'm not > mistaken). It implements

Re: Setting transparent xterms

1998-04-14 Thread Klas Lindberg
> > Some people once told me that they saw a "xterm" window in X that had a > >transparent -background so you could easily see the wallpaper in the back. > Last I heard, transparent backgrounds were not possible (but this may or > may not be true now, as I'm using X less and less...) But RxVT,

Re: Setting transparent xterms

1998-04-14 Thread Damon Muller
G'day, > Some people once told me that they saw a "xterm" window in X that had a >transparent -background so you could easily see the wallpaper in the back. How >is this possible? (So basically it is like me calling an xterm window and >seeing my nice background and I will look like I am t

Re: Setting transparent xterms

1998-04-13 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 12:57:00PM -0400, Carroll Kong wrote: > Some people once told me that they saw a "xterm" window in X that had a > transparent -background so you could easily see the wallpaper in the back. > How > is this possible? (So basically it is like me calling an xterm window

Setting transparent xterms

1998-04-12 Thread Carroll Kong
Some people once told me that they saw a "xterm" window in X that had a transparent -background so you could easily see the wallpaper in the back. How is this possible? (So basically it is like me calling an xterm window and seeing my nice background and I will look like I am typing direc