Re: gnome-terminal-1.0.7

[Ben Frantzdale <frantzdb admin arhs net>]

I generally use gnome term but I'm torn because RXVT uses almost no
resources and Eterm kicks ass at transparency. I do like the fact that
gnome term gives me my beautifull gtk themes. I'd very much like it if
gnome terminal had better transparency support (like tiling backgrounds
working, tinting, shading, etc.) I'd suppose much of the code is there for
the taking from Eterm.

just my 2e-2$



--Ben

On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, James M. Cape wrote:

> James Green wrote:
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I've been using gnome-terminal in place of E-term-0.8.9 for the past
> > couple of days and have come across the following:
> > 
> > * When using BitchX irc client, the updation of the terminal (when new
> > text comes in) causes a flicker. I assume this could be a gtk widjet
> > strutting it's stuff, but regardless I'd prefer to see a screen-update
> > without the flicker. If it updates too fast, you could see a strobing
> > effect which wouldn't be nice for some people's eyes.
> > 
> > * using the Lucinda Console fomt, I'm seeing apparently randomly-placed
> > pixels appearing. I guess this is part of the update or something, but
> > using vim with a php file and syntax highlighting, it corrupts the display
> > badly. Doesn't appear to be the case in, say, pine.
> > 
> > (Could both of these problems be related to the fact that they both use
> > colour?)
> > 
> > Oh, and a suggestion - my gnome-terminals are all set to use transparency
> > with shading. Could it have a slider to select shading by a given
> > percentage? Maybe also tinting as well. Maybe I just love E-term too much
> > :-)
> > 
> > Many thanks.
> > 
> > --
> > James Green
> 
> No offense intended to the gnome-terminal maintainer, but Eterm is far
> and a way better at transparency, shading, colors, theming; the whole
> enchilada. Gnome-terminal is really the odd man out, IMO, since even
> *Aterm* does a better job at transparency and shading, and rxvt does a
> better job at basic terminal emmulation...
> 
>     Jim Cape
>     http://www.jcinteractive.com
> 
>     "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them
>      pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
>         -- Winston Churchill
> 
> 
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