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Date:      Sat, 17 Nov 2001 09:58:20 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Michael McCaffrey" <michael@fxprojects.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Transparent Xterm
Message-ID:  <200111171758.fAHHwKN38946@godzilla.fxprojects.com>
In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "Christian Weisgerber" at Nov 17, 2001 12:17:04 PM

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> shanon loveridge <shanon_loveridge@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I know this is a little off topic but could someone
> > tell what I need to do to make the XTerm have that
> > nice transparent background?
> 
> xterm itself doesn't support this gimmick, however there are a
> variety of xterm/rxvt-derivatives in the ports collection that do,
> e.g. x11/aterm.
> 
> Note that none of them are really transparent.  They only copy the
> respective part of the root window into their background.  If you
> have overlapping windows, the result is somewhat jarring.

i kinda like that. it's like having X-Ray-Vision.

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