Some sort of console terminal

[Rick Stevens]

David Keen wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 12:04, Niels Roetert wrote:
> 
>>People,
>>
>>I've seen a number of screen shots of other users,
>>showing a window, integrated in the desktop background ( I think it is ).
>>On this window it shows the system messages,
>>what application/applet thus this?
>>
> 
> 
> You don't just mean a Terminal with a clear background do you?
> 
> In gnome-terminal you can customise your profile so it can have a
> transparent background. (Edit > Current Profile > Effects > Transparent
> Background.)

In KDE, there is the "Konsole" applet, which is an xterm with console
attributes (essentially, "xterm -C").  I'm not certain you can specify
that for gnome-terminal.
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