Truly Transparent gnome-terminal

[Bill Rugolsky Jr.]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 10:40:24AM -0700, Joseph Phillips wrote:
> Please pardon my vanity, but will the next release of RHL support truly
> transparent gnome-terminals?
> 
> I'm not talking about the pseudo-transparency of the past, wherein the
> terminal simply displays the portion of the background image.  With this
> sort of fake-transparency, any window, that comes intermediate between
> the terminal and the background image, is not displayed.  Instead, the
> background image is displayed, even though the object directly beneath
> the terminal is another window.
> 
> I know this is a cosmetic feature, but I'd be willing to bet that, as
> far as cosmetic features go, this one ranks pretty high up there in
> terms of feature-requested popularity.

You may want to try these packages from Fedora.
I haven't spent much time on theming, but as a demo it is enough to
shut up the MacOS X bigots. ;-p

Regards,

	Bill Rugolsky


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