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by **ZiaTioN** » Mon May 19, 2003 4:17 pm

I was under the impression that the program that is used to create transparent mernues was not able to be run on RH 8.0? I was just reading some of Void Main's tut's using RH 8.0 and saw his transparent menues. Void, what do you use to create this effect??

by **Void Main** » Mon May 19, 2003 4:26 pm

I don't believe I have any screenshots that show any menus. The only transparent menus I know of are part of KDE (actually they are translucent) which I do not run so I am a little confused about your question. With RH8 and now RH9 I have been using Gnome. I do currently have transparent backgrounds on my Gnome panels but I have them set to autohide so none of my screenshots show this effect. I use translucent backgrounds in my terminals and GKrellm if that is what you mean. Hmmm...

by **ZiaTioN** » Tue May 20, 2003 12:13 am

hmm. Ok it might just have been your shell prompt window.

This is what I was talking about:
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/si/?i=nam ... .home.zone

Oh and how do you get your system stats, like memory and cpu usage to show on the right like that? Is that real time status?

by **Calum** » Tue May 20, 2003 2:18 am

those stats are a program called gkrellm (i think) but i have no idea how to make it transparent like that, and the simulated background transparency is set from the preferences dialogues in both gnome-terminal and konsole, and you can set it by passing some options if you run rxvt or Eterm too.

Website · by **Ice9** » Tue May 20, 2003 2:41 am

those stats are a program called gkrellm (i think) but i have no idea how to make it transparent like that,

gkrellm comes with many many different skins, some of them are transparent, others aren't
you can browse the skins with PGUP/PGDN

by **Calum** » Tue May 20, 2003 7:26 am

Ice9 wrote:gkrellm comes with many many different skins, some of them are transparent, others aren't
you can browse the skins with PGUP/PGDN

aaaaah! you learn something every day, eh?

by **agent007** » Sat May 31, 2003 10:57 am

With ref to the pic.....Is it xterm? I'm on RH9 and xterm doesnt have any option for the transparency...

007

This is what I was talking about:
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/si/?i=nam ... .home.zone

by **Tux** » Sat May 31, 2003 11:07 am

It is probably konsole with thetoolbar and menubar removed.

by **agent007** » Sat May 31, 2003 11:19 am

I too was thinking the same.....but how come the transparent thing doesnt work for me? Maybe it requires KDE or GNOME as the Desktop env...will check it out later.
007

by **Void Main** » Sat May 31, 2003 1:30 pm

All the terminals in my screenshots are "gnome-terminal" with transparent background and all menus and scrollbars turned off (I hate them, they get in the way). "konsole" will also do transparent backgrounds, but the first terminal I used that could do this was called ETerm. There is no "xterm" that I know of that can do this. ETerm is basically an xterm with transparent background capabilities. It can also use any image you want for a background.

In case you didn't know it, instead of using the clumsy scrollbars with a mouse to scroll back in your terminal buffer you can just press "CTRL+PGUP" and "CTRL+PGDN". This also works in virtual terminals.

by **Calum** » Sat May 31, 2003 2:22 pm

for reference rxvt can do transparency amongst many other things, it is just like xterm but a lot better, and konsole and gnome-terminal can both do transparency perfectly well when not used in their native desktop environments (as i have used both transparently in xfce).

by **Tux** » Sat May 31, 2003 2:37 pm

konsole doesnt do it in blackbox and derivatives.

by **ZiaTioN** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 9:32 am

Does Eterm come default install with RH 8.0? If so how do I use Eterm instead of Xterm??

by **Void Main** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 9:46 am

No, ETerm does not come with Red Hat but gnome-terminal and konsole both do and they both can do transparent backgrounds just like ETerm. But if you want ETerm you can download the RPM from here:

http://www.eterm.org/

by **Calum** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 11:49 am

i like Eterm and i plan to install it in RH9 after i rip the guts out of my computer, put new guts in and wipe the drive.
here's hoping there aren't any nasty E dependency issues.

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