If you want real transparency, like the Aqua terminals, I would suggest
using OroborOSX instead of Apple's X11.app. It allows you to make any X11
window semitransparent. If I understand it correctly, it hooked into
Quartz's native compositor. X11 applications never know anything about the
transparency.
-Sean
Tim Cutts wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:26:29PM +0200, Tede Fries wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > anybody already running (pseudo-) transparent a-, E-, gnome- terms,
> > rxvt or so under Apple's X11? and, if yes, which way? is this already
> > implemented at all? and, if no, waddya think how long until then? ;)
>
> I don't think they are, nor ever will be, in rootless mode. It's
> difficult to do rootless, since the server would have to poll what the
> Quartz stuff behind looked like; essentially it would have to
> continuously update the (invisible) root window with an image of the
> quartz desktop.
>
> If you want transparent terminals, I really recommend you stick with the
> genuine Aqua ones. I use iTerm, which is a huge amount better than
> Terminal.app. It supports many features I used to like in Gnome
> terminal, such as multiple tabs, and the ability to select URLs and send
> them straight to your browser (it links very nicely into Camino, and
> probably other browsers too)
>
> Plus of course you get cocoa-style drag-and-drop cut and paste to other
> cocoa applications, and between terminal windows.
>
> Tim
>
> --
> Dr Tim Cutts
> Informatics Systems Group
> Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
-Sean
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