Transparent Terminals

[Tim Becker]

It's a secret hidden trick! 

>From a shell 

pkill metacity ; /usr/bin/sawfish&

Log out and save changes and log in again to make it permanent. 


On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 10:28, Chuck Mize wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 07:41, Tim Becker wrote:
> > I set up what I call a background shell.  It's just a transparent
> > borderless terminal that covers most of my desktop background.  I've
> > done this with both Eterm and gnome-terminal and I think any term
> > program that supports transparent backgrounds will work.
> > 
> > Here's how I set my "background" shell up:
> > 
> > First you can not use Metacity as your WM b/c it does not support
> > borderless windows (I find Metaciy VERY lacking).  I use sawfish as my
> > WM.
> 
> How do you switch from Metacity to sawfish?
> 
> 
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Tim Becker
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