Stumped...

[Dennis J. Eberl]

James,

See below.

James A Simmons wrote:

> > I know that one of the terminal programs was 'rxvt' but I don't know
> > what some of the others are.  Anybody got any ideas???
>
> Their is Eterm, kvt, kconsole, rxvt, xterm and a few others I can't think
> off the top of my head.
>
> > OK, this one's got me.  I've been poking around with themes in KDE and
> > when I'm looking at them on themes.org, several of them show terminal
> > (shell) session with transparent backgrounds.  That is to say that the
> > root background shows through the window.  On one of the themes, there
> > were no borders, no decorations, transparent background and ghostly
> > white text that appeared to be console output floating in the ether...
> >
> > HOW THE HECK DO THEY DO THAT?!?!?!
> >
> > I've built pixmaps with transparent colors, ran strings on all of the
> > terminal emulators I have (don't have Eterm) looking for interesting
> > options, tried a few really stupid things that I didn't think would
> > work and generally frustrated myself.
>
> It's called alpha blending. You can do some fancy stuff with it. I can
> post the theory behine alpha blending if you want.

James, please do post it. We need to think of archiving stuff like that and making it
available via our site.

Dennis

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