Re: aterm/eterm/any transparent capable term
Doug Alcorn (alcornd@earthlink.net)
27 Jan 1999 12:24:16 -0500
Stimpy <chung@starnetinc.com> writes:
> I saw some screen shots that seemed to do this but I later found out
> that the poster used an identical background for the term and then
> positioned the window to seem that the background was showing through
> the term window. This may not be possible yet. Dont quote me on it
> though. If your trying to get this effect, the enlightenment win
> manager maybe able to do this.
> Good luck. 8)
>
This information was true about 6 months ago. There has been a lot of
work in this area. Eterm/aterm/wterm all do a pseudo-transparency.
This means that the X server has a property set that stores the
background image. When you open a pseudo-trans window, it checks this
property and sets its background accordingly. The difference between
this and real transparency is significant, but the pseudo works really
nice.
As far as HP-UX goes, you should be able to get either aterm/eterm to
compile. We can certainly field questions on aterm in this list;
Eterm would be better served elsewhere.
However, I concur with the other followup: what compile time errors
are you getting?
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