Turning on transparency in aterm is trivial and it worked well. I did experience the CPU problem as well, and the echo/refresh problem really made it unusable.
-Simon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean-Claude Gervais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 4:00 AM Subject: RE: Transparent terminal window? > Thanks Biju, Simon. > > Simon, you're right; ATerm builds easily on Cygwin, but it does have the > display problem you mentioned. > And on my system, with a very recent fresh install of Cygwin, it maxes out > the CPU the second you start it. > > I haven't even tried to get it to display the transparent background > though, have you? > > I will send a note to ATerm's author to tell him about the CPU bug. > > Thanks > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Simon Dong > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 11:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Transparent terminal window? > > > Aterm doens't work properly on Cygwin/XFree86. It has a problem refreshing > the screen. Whatever you type in will not be echoed until you move/resize > the window. > > I got ETerm compile on Cygwin with transparent background. I couldn't get > the background image to work (because I couldn't get imlib2 compiled with > dll support, I think), but I really don't need it. I had to jump through a > lot of hoops though, and didn't get the process documented. > > For what I can remember, I need to compile > > edb1.0.3 > freetype-1.3.1 > imlib2-1.0.6 > > And apply the kde patch to cygwin for shared mem support, which can be found > at kde/cygwin's website. > > Then I can get Eterm built. > > -Simon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Biju G C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 5:26 PM > Subject: Re: Transparent terminal window? > > > > I have not seen any binary avialable on cygwin > > try to compile > > http://aterm.sourceforge.net/ > > > > for more screenshots > > http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/ > > > > cheers > > biju > > CyGNOME = Cygwin + GNOME http://cygnome.sourceforge.net/ > > --- Jean-Claude Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm running WindowMaker, and I was wondering; does anyone know how to > get > > > transparent terminal windows? > > > > > > Can you do it with stock Cygwin-XFree or do you have to download and > > > compile a specific terminal emulator? > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more > > http://tax.yahoo.com > > >