Stumped...

[Robert Meyer]

--- James A Simmons <jsimmons at acsu.buffalo.edu> 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. A example of it is
>    
> 
>
ftp://microwindows.censoft.com/pub/microwindows/ScreenShots/Microwindows-alphablend.gif
> 

Actually, I'm not so much interested in the theory, just a cookbook
"How-TO" to get the transparent *{term,vt} background.

Looks WAY too cool to not try out.

later...

=====
Bob Meyer
Knightwing Communications
36 Cayuga Blvd
Depew, NY 14043
Phone: 716-308-8931 or 716-681-0076
Meyer_RM at Yahoo.com

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