HOWTO: True or Pseudo-Transparent Borderless Pop-up Terminals

[23meg]

I think your gnome-terminal shortcut isn't launching the terminal with the tterm profile for some reason. Make sure it's started with that profile by checking the syntax of the "--window-with-profile" option. Also try using a higher value with the "sleep" command in the launcher script.

[thestarslookdown]

Raising the value of sleep to 5 made it work. Thanks.

[HJThis]

Hey,To all

@23meg

I would just like to say thanks for this great thread
did as you & others had posted & wow i can't get over
how much better it makes the desktop look.

please keep up the great work oh by the way
i got this to work with right clicking well almost
just need to find a way to remove the sides of
the Terminal.

Thank you

[HJThis]

Hi,To all

Well just like to say sorry i word that all wrong i did not
find a way one of the members here posted an idea for
adding the Terminal as a right click option

so using part of his idea & your thread
i just about have it working.

Thank you

[rjwood]

I am trying to do this and I am having difficulty understanding one or two things. Just because I'm not yet sure of proper scripting, but I'm learning.
does this look correct?

#!/bin/bash
alltray -x -st -g +10+46 "gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=tterm" & sleep 3
transset-df -n "tterm (AllTray)" 0.70

I named the script tterm, is that ok??

I only put the FIRST value of the xwininfo in or should the complete line be there?
I've tried it both way's and can't get it working.
Also, I don't have xcompmgr in sessions because I have a launcher for it instead. I doubt that makes a difference though.

[frodon]

Why not use a keyboard shortcut ?
You just need to create a shortcut which will run your alltray command, it's what i use to launch my alltray command.
See my HOWTO if you don't know how create a custom keyboard shortcut.

[rjwood]

Now i am getting this:

rob@ubuntu:~$ cd transset-df-4/
rob@ubuntu:~/transset-df-4$ make
cc -Wall -o transset-df transSet.o dsimple.o `pkg-config --libs xcomposite xfixes xdamage xrender` -lm
Package xrender was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xrender.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xrender' found
transSet.o: In function `get_top_window':
transSet.c:.text+0x189): undefined reference to `XQueryTree'
transSet.c:.text+0x1d3): undefined reference to `XQueryTree'
transSet.o: In function `main':
transSet.c:.text+0x63e): undefined reference to `XFetchName'
transSet.c:.text+0x6d9): undefined reference to `XInternAtom'
transSet.c:.text+0x70e): undefined reference to `XGetWindowProperty'
transSet.c:.text+0x72e): undefined reference to `XFree'
transSet.c:.text+0x857): undefined reference to `XInternAtom'
transSet.c:.text+0x871): undefined reference to `XDeleteProperty'
transSet.c:.text+0x88e): undefined reference to `XInternAtom'
transSet.c:.text+0x8ae): undefined reference to `XChangeProperty'
transSet.c:.text+0x8c1): undefined reference to `XSync'
dsimple.o: In function `Open_Display':
dsimple.c:.text+0x1ea): undefined reference to `XOpenDisplay'
dsimple.c:.text+0x201): undefined reference to `XDisplayName'
dsimple.o: In function `Open_Font':
dsimple.c:.text+0x27b): undefined reference to `XLoadQueryFont'
dsimple.o: In function `Beep':
dsimple.c:.text+0x2b2): undefined reference to `XBell'
dsimple.o: In function `ReadBitmapFile':
dsimple.c:.text+0x342): undefined reference to `XReadBitmapFile'
dsimple.o: In function `WriteBitmapFile':
dsimple.c:.text+0x392): undefined reference to `XWriteBitmapFile'
dsimple.o: In function `Resolve_Color':
dsimple.c:.text+0x6ec): undefined reference to `XGetWindowAttributes'
dsimple.c:.text+0x70b): undefined reference to `XParseColor'
dsimple.c:.text+0x737): undefined reference to `XAllocColor'
dsimple.o: In function `Bitmap_To_Pixmap':
dsimple.c:.text+0x785): undefined reference to `XGetGeometry'
dsimple.c:.text+0x7af): undefined reference to `XCreatePixmap'
dsimple.c:.text+0x7db): undefined reference to `XCopyPlane'
dsimple.o: In function `Select_Window':
dsimple.c:.text+0x870): undefined reference to `XCreateFontCursor'
dsimple.c:.text+0x894): undefined reference to `XGrabPointer'
dsimple.c:.text+0x8bc): undefined reference to `XAllowEvents'
dsimple.c:.text+0x8d0): undefined reference to `XWindowEvent'
dsimple.c:.text+0x933): undefined reference to `XUngrabPointer'
dsimple.o: In function `Get_Window_Under_Cursor':
dsimple.c:.text+0x978): undefined reference to `XCreateFontCursor'
dsimple.c:.text+0x99c): undefined reference to `XGrabPointer'
dsimple.c:.text+0x9df): undefined reference to `XQueryPointer'
dsimple.c:.text+0x9ef): undefined reference to `XUngrabPointer'
dsimple.o: In function `Window_With_Name':
dsimple.c:.text+0xa16): undefined reference to `XFetchName'
dsimple.c:.text+0xa5c): undefined reference to `XQueryTree'
dsimple.c:.text+0xac2): undefined reference to `XFree'
dsimple.o: In function `Window_With_Name_Regex_Recurse':
dsimple.c:.text+0xaef): undefined reference to `XFetchName'
dsimple.c:.text+0xb3b): undefined reference to `XQueryTree'
dsimple.c:.text+0xba1): undefined reference to `XFree'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [transset-df] Error 1
rob@ubuntu:~/transset-df-4$

probably easy for most of you
I know it's pretty much telling me what to do but, I'm not sure how to.
any help would be greatly appriciated.

[rjwood]

nobody has any idea's of how to fix this??

[23meg]

HJThis: Thanks, glad it worked for you.

rjwood: Your script looks correct; you only need to put the first two numbers you see next to "Corners:" in xwininfo. And the compilation error you're getting seems to be because you haven't installed the required packages. Are you sure you've performed step 3?

(Edit: Oops, possible omission in the guide. I'm not on an Ubuntu machine now so I can't check this but see if there's a package called libxrender1-dev or libxrender-dev and install it if it's missing. Please report if it helped so that I can make the necessary correction.)

[rjwood]

HJThis: Thanks, glad it worked for you.

rjwood: Your script looks correct; you only need to put the first two numbers you see next to "Corners:" in xwininfo. And the compilation error you're getting seems to be because you haven't installed the required packages. Are you sure you've performed step 3?

(Edit: Oops, possible omission in the guide. I'm not on an Ubuntu machine now so I can't check this but see if there's a package called libxrender1-dev or libxrender-dev and install it if it's missing. Please report if it helped so that I can make the necessary correction.)

Thank you 23meg, I finally got it working with your help. There are actuall 3 or 4 different libxrender selections in synaptic. I checked them all and got the link working. the only problem now, if it is a problem is that when I click the 'tterm' icon that i created it docks ttern a second time with alltray and i have to click the new docked tterm icon to get it working. So, I basically have to click two different icons to get it to show up. Is that normal??

Thanks again for the 'How To' and the attention.