Re: Translucency

[Ron Geis <ron_geis at yahoo 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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