Re: aterm questions

Donald A. Peterson (donald@nd.edu)
Wed, 5 Jan 2000 10:32:15 -0500 (EST) 

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On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, [iso-8859-1] Mikko Hänninen wrote:

> 2. How do I change the color of the scroll bar for aterms?  I didn't see

I don't know as you can actually change the _color_, but you can make it
transparent by starting aterm with the commandline option
-trsb.  According to the man page, the resource would be transpscrollbar.

> 3. I'd like to have transparent windows with the background image
> showing throug, but darkened/dimmed.  Currently my settings are:
> 
> Aterm*transparent:      true
> Aterm*tinting:          White
> Aterm*shading:          70
>
> This works fine for my normal background (simple dark gray paper
> texture, Back.xpm), but when I change background to something else,
> the aterms retain the original background texture.  What's more, even
> new aterms have the old background image showing in the background.

Hmmm.  That is odd.  My transparent aterms don't have a problem adopting
the wallpaper when it changes or when I move the aterm across desks with
the pager.  How is your background image being
handled?  asetroot/pager?  XV?  Maybe Sasha has a clue here?

My problem with aterm 0.3.6 is that whenever I change themes (or restart
the session, which I believe is the real culprit), any transparent or
tinted aterms crash and disappear.  The ones with a solid background are
robust, however.

> but it seems strange.  Also, I'm wondering what are good shading values
> to use, what are others using?

I use a shading of 65 and a fading of 50.

Cheers,
-Don
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Department of Physics	 | http://www.nd.edu/~dpeterso
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