Transparent terminals?

[Neil Hodge]

All:

On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 17:04, Bill Johnson wrote:
> I see some really cool screen shots for Linux, and they often include 
> completely transparent terminals - no border or menu bar or scroll bar... 
> just text apparently floating over the background.  Very cool.
> 
> Are there recommendations for achieving this in Fedora?  Is eterm the only 
> solution for this?
> 

I am wondering if any of the solutions mentioned previously in this
thread are truly transparent (i.e., they show desktop icons, other open
windows, etc.) or just pseudo-transparent (i.e., they pass through the
root window only).  Thanks.

Neil