Re: Terminal Transparency

[Andreas Persenius <andreas alfaskop net>]

Quoting Miguel de Icaza (miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx):
> > OK, here's me in WindowMaker, got a nice WM theme running with background.
> > So run gnome-terminal and select transparency. Only nothing heppens.
> 
> Use the gnome control center to set the background or use esetroot.
> Both of these programs allow applications to get access to the
> background pixmap.
> 
> The gnome-terminal when using the "background" option will query the
> server for a property that points to the background.  If your
> background-setting application does not set this property there is no
> way you can get this to work.

I'm using Window Maker 0.53 and here it works just fine with the
background disabled in the Gnome control center. I am setting the
background using the Window Maker menu, which in turn calls wmsetbg.


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Andreas Persenius
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