Hi there, I don't know how useful an answer this is going to be, but for what its worth, I also use mrxvt, though this trick will work with any terminal. Its not translucency, but transparency - I must confess to not really understanding the difference.
I run Cygwin/X with -multiwindow, so each mrxvt window launches as a "proper" Windows window. I then use standard Windows (2000/XP) transparency to make my terminals transparent. The neatest app I've found to set this is PowerMenu(1). Hope this is useful. Incidentally, mrxvt seems to me to be nearly perfect as a terminal (no - I'm not trying to start a flame war :). I start it as follows: C:\Cygwin\usr\local\bin\mrxvt.exe -geometry 140x40 -bgfade 50 -stt -bc -xft -xftfn "Monospac821 BT" -xftaa -xftsz 14 -ht -b 20 -bg Black -fg DarkSeaGreen +sb -sl 5000 --color1 tan3 --color2 chartreuse4 --color3 LemonChiffon --color4 CornflowerBlue --color5 firebrick4 -- color6 LightBlue3 -e /usr/bin/bash --login -i which gives me anti-aliased fonts, multiple terminals (ctrl-alt-n for a new shell, shift-(left|right arrow) to cycle, and allows for jpeg/png backgrounds (try echo -ne "\E]20;image.jpg;\a" ) Ant. (1) http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/ ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/