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From: houghi on 28 Jun 2008 07:31
I am trying out a new terminal to run in X. Instead of using aterm and
wterm as terminal programs for their transparentcy, I am trying out
gnome-terminal.

So far all that I need is there, exept for one thing. When I open slrn,
the background is NOT transparrent. My guess this is due to slrn, but it
is transparent in aterm and wterm.

Any pointers on how to make this transparrent as well?

houghi
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theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit
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From: houghi on 28 Jun 2008 08:44
houghi wrote:
>
>
> I am trying out a new terminal to run in X. Instead of using aterm and
> wterm as terminal programs for their transparentcy, I am trying out
> gnome-terminal.
>
> So far all that I need is there, exept for one thing. When I open slrn,
> the background is NOT transparrent. My guess this is due to slrn, but it
> is transparent in aterm and wterm.
>
> Any pointers on how to make this transparrent as well?

Mmm. When I want to run more then one terminal, it doesn't work as I
would suspect. It closes the other ones. :-(

houghi
--
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The
theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit
of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers. -- Heinlein
From: Kevin Nathan on 28 Jun 2008 13:20
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:44:55 +0200
houghi <houghi(a)houghi.org.invalid> wrote:

>Mmm. When I want to run more then one terminal, it doesn't work as I
>would suspect. It closes the other ones. :-(
>

That sure doesn't sound very Linux-like, does it? I'm assuming you're
having these problems on openSUSE 11 -- I don't have that installed
yet, but thinking about doing it this afternoon. When I do, I'll see if
I get the same result. Sounds suspiciously like it could be related to
your single GUI problem, too . . .


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From: houghi on 28 Jun 2008 13:58
Kevin Nathan wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:44:55 +0200
> houghi <houghi(a)houghi.org.invalid> wrote:
>
>>Mmm. When I want to run more then one terminal, it doesn't work as I
>>would suspect. It closes the other ones. :-(
>>
>
> That sure doesn't sound very Linux-like, does it? I'm assuming you're
> having these problems on openSUSE 11 -- I don't have that installed
> yet, but thinking about doing it this afternoon. When I do, I'll see if
> I get the same result. Sounds suspiciously like it could be related to
> your single GUI problem, too . . .

Well, the single GUI is solved and I also found some workarounds for
some of the problems.
1) The problem was cause by adding --display=:0.0 and such.
2) Workaround for not closing the open gnome-terminal is by making
symlinks to many of them:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 houghi users 23 2008-06-28 13:52 gnome-terminal0 -> /usr/bin/gnome-terminal*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 houghi users 23 2008-06-28 13:51 gnome-terminal1 -> /usr/bin/gnome-terminal*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 houghi users 23 2008-06-28 13:52 gnome-terminal2 -> /usr/bin/gnome-terminal*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 houghi users 23 2008-06-28 13:52 gnome-terminal3 -> /usr/bin/gnome-terminal*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 houghi users 23 2008-06-28 13:52 gnome-terminal4 -> /usr/bin/gnome-terminal*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 houghi users 23 2008-06-28 13:52 gnome-terminal5 -> /usr/bin/gnome-terminal*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 houghi users 23 2008-06-28 13:52 gnome-terminal6 -> /usr/bin/gnome-terminal*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 houghi users 23 2008-06-28 13:52 gnome-terminal7 -> /usr/bin/gnome-terminal*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 houghi users 23 2008-06-28 13:52 gnome-terminal8 -> /usr/bin/gnome-terminal*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 houghi users 23 2008-06-28 13:52 gnome-terminal9 -> /usr/bin/gnome-terminal*

Next to have each termanal open differently:
#slrn
gnome-terminal0 --window-with-profile=slrn --hide-menubar -t `which slrn` --geometry=86x78-70+0 -x slrn
#Screen 1, Workspace 3, the three ones
gnome-terminal1 --window-with-profile=Green --hide-menubar --geometry=109x32+64+0
gnome-terminal2 --window-with-profile=Green2 --hide-menubar --geometry=140x79-70+0
gnome-terminal3 --window-with-profile=Green --hide-menubar --geometry=109x46+64+491

#Screen 1, Workspace 4, the three ones
gnome-terminal4 --window-with-profile=Blue --hide-menubar --geometry=109x32+64+0
gnome-terminal5 --window-with-profile=Blue2 --hide-menubar --geometry=140x79-70+0
gnome-terminal6 --window-with-profile=Red --hide-menubar --geometry=109x46+64+491 -x su -

#Screen 0 Background
gnome-terminal7 --window-with-profile=fullscreen --hide-menubar --geometry=275x80+0+0

Disadvatage is that I can't just run it from one screen.

In Windowmaker I also disabled the titlebar and resizebar. Although many
things are working on the individual screens, those don't with
gnome-terminal, while they did with wterm and aterm.

However when I look at slrn, I do not get to see the background and
neither when I run mc or yast in a terminal.

houghi
--
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The
theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit
of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers. -- Heinlein
From: Kevin Nathan on 28 Jun 2008 14:51
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:58:24 +0200
houghi <houghi(a)houghi.org.invalid> wrote:

>Well, the single GUI is solved and I also found some workarounds for
>some of the problems.

Good to hear!

>1) The problem was cause by adding --display=:0.0 and such.

On the command line? Or in a config file?


>2) Workaround for not closing the open gnome-terminal is by making
>symlinks to many of them:
>
<snip>
>
>In Windowmaker I also disabled the titlebar and resizebar. Although
>many things are working on the individual screens, those don't with
>gnome-terminal, while they did with wterm and aterm.
>
>However when I look at slrn, I do not get to see the background and
>neither when I run mc or yast in a terminal.
>

Just out of curiosity, have you looked at, or tried, rxvt? I used to
use that quite a bit and liked its speed and small footprint. I didn't
see it in 10.3 but it looks like its replacement is urxvt. From what I
remember, it handles transparency, too . . .


--
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