Transparent terminal window?

[Simon Dong]

Turning on transparency in aterm is trivial and it worked well. I did
experience the CPU problem as well, and the echo/refresh problem really made
it unusable.

-Simon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Claude Gervais" <jc.gervais@videotron.ca>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 4:00 AM
Subject: RE: Transparent terminal window?


> Thanks Biju, Simon.
>
> Simon, you're right; ATerm builds easily on Cygwin, but it does have the
> display problem you mentioned.
> And on my system, with a very recent fresh install of Cygwin, it maxes out
> the CPU the second you start it.
>
> I haven't even tried to get it to display the transparent background
> though, have you?
>
> I will send a note to ATerm's author to tell him about the CPU bug.
>
> Thanks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On
> Behalf Of Simon Dong
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 11:13 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Transparent terminal window?
>
>
> Aterm doens't work properly on Cygwin/XFree86. It has a problem refreshing
> the screen. Whatever you type in will not be echoed until you move/resize
> the window.
>
> I got ETerm compile on Cygwin with transparent background. I couldn't get
> the background image to work (because I couldn't get imlib2 compiled with
> dll support, I think), but I really don't need it. I had to jump through a
> lot of hoops though, and didn't get the process documented.
>
> For what I can remember, I need to compile
>
> edb1.0.3
> freetype-1.3.1
> imlib2-1.0.6
>
> And apply the kde patch to cygwin for shared mem support, which can be
found
> at kde/cygwin's website.
>
> Then I can get Eterm built.
>
> -Simon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Biju G C" <bijumaillist@yahoo.com>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 5:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Transparent terminal window?
>
>
> > I have not seen any binary avialable on cygwin
> > try to compile
> >    http://aterm.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > for more screenshots
> >    http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > cheers
> > biju
> > CyGNOME = Cygwin + GNOME  http://cygnome.sourceforge.net/
> > --- Jean-Claude Gervais <jc.gervais@videotron.ca> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm running WindowMaker, and I was wondering; does anyone know how to
> get
> > > transparent terminal windows?
> > >
> > > Can you do it with stock Cygwin-XFree or do you have to download and
> > > compile a specific terminal emulator?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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