Truly Transparent gnome-terminal

[Vanco, Donald]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 12 September 2003 11:00, Vanco, Donald wrote:
>> Really?  I think it's a PITA - IMO I'd think it can really clutter
>> things up if everything under a terminal is visible... Unless you've
>> themed your desktop _really_ well, you're bound to have contrast
>> issues between window contents, window colors, and font settings.
> 
> It's really not that bad, I use it all the time on my OS X system.
> 
> Of course, I'm not sure if X has a way to handle this type of eye
> candy w/out sending the CPU into a frenzy.
	Now it would _really_ be cool to make a transparent terminal that
went opaque on mouseover - got to justify those 3GHz P4s somehow....

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