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Re: Translucency
- From: Ron Geis <ron_geis at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 11:11:32 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Translucency
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Well, that works for me, thanks for the tip!!! I ran a search
on Google, and found a freebee,
http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml that seems to work
fine. I didn't have to make any changes to X server settings,
either. Woo Hoo!
Ron
--- Antony Baxter <antony_baxter@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I don't know how useful an answer this is going to be,
> but for what its
> worth, I also use mrxvt, though this trick will work
> with any terminal.
> Its not translucency, but transparency - I must
> confess to not really
> understanding the difference.
>
> I run Cygwin/X with -multiwindow, so each mrxvt window
> launches as a
> "proper" Windows window. I then use standard Windows
> (2000/XP)
> transparency to make my terminals transparent. The
> neatest app I've
> found to set this is PowerMenu(1). Hope this is
> useful.
>
> Incidentally, mrxvt seems to me to be nearly perfect
> as a terminal (no -
> I'm not trying to start a flame war :). I start it as
> follows:
>
> C:\Cygwin\usr\local\bin\mrxvt.exe -geometry 140x40
> -bgfade 50 -stt -bc
> -xft -xftfn "Monospac821 BT" -xftaa -xftsz 14 -ht -b
> 20 -bg
> Black -fg DarkSeaGreen +sb -sl 5000 --color1 tan3
> --color2 chartreuse4
> --color3 LemonChiffon --color4 CornflowerBlue --color5
> firebrick4 --
> color6 LightBlue3 -e /usr/bin/bash --login -i
>
> which gives me anti-aliased fonts, multiple terminals
> (ctrl-alt-n for a
> new shell, shift-(left|right arrow) to cycle, and
> allows for jpeg/png
> backgrounds (try
>
> echo -ne "\E]20;image.jpg;\a"
>
> )
>
> Ant.
>
>
> (1)
> http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/
>
>
>
>
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