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

**guyomarj** · November 10th, 2005

Nice trick

I used the pseudo-transparent way, and it worked well...

Is there a way not to have the terminal listed in the "window list panel"? And is there a way to bind the terminal to a key?

**23meg** · November 10th, 2005

Originally Posted by guyomarj

Is there a way not to have the terminal listed in the "window list panel"?

You should be able to do that with Devil's Pie, theoretically, but I haven't managed to, so I didn't include it in the guide. I don't think this is a significiant problem, since the terminal here is meant as a pop-up one that you'll only open when you need, and hide when you're done. You also have the option of making it appear on only one workspace by removing the -st parameter from the launcher line.

Originally Posted by guyomarj

And is there a way to bind the terminal to a key?

Do you mean pressing a key to make Alltray hide/show the window? I don't think this is possible but I'll look into it.

**guyomarj** · November 10th, 2005

Originally Posted by 23meg

Do you mean pressing a key to make Alltray hide/show the window? I don't think this is possible but I'll look into it.

Yes, I'm kind of lazy

and thx for the reply, I'll look into Devil's Pie

**23meg** · November 10th, 2005

Wolki's guide to Devil's Pie will let you get started fast if you're interested.

**twodogs** · November 20th, 2005

i'm following directions how to get trans. window. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TransparentTerminals)

at 'compile step 3' it does this....

100%[====================================>] 10,071 28.42K/s

18:05:34 (28.34 KB/s) - `transset-df-4.tar.gz' saved [10071/10071]

twodogs@ubuntu:~$ tar zxf transset-df-4.tar.gz cd transset-df-4/
tar: cd: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
twodogs@ubuntu:~$ make
bash: make: command not found
twodogs@ubuntu:~$ sudo make install
sudo: make: command not found
twodogs@ubuntu:~$
twodogs@ubuntu:~$

it will not do the 'make' for some reason. do you know why? i'm a noob and still new to linux. thanks for your help.

**fabs0028** · November 20th, 2005

Thanx a lot for this great tutorial
I just had to rebuild alltray cause i'm on an amd64 ubuntu but it was perfect.

Anyway really love that transparent terminal on my screen, it is really usefull.

Thanx one more time

**23meg** · November 22nd, 2005

Originally Posted by twodogs

i'm following directions how to get trans. window. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TransparentTerminals)

at 'compile step 3' it does this....

100%[====================================>] 10,071 28.42K/s

18:05:34 (28.34 KB/s) - `transset-df-4.tar.gz' saved [10071/10071]

twodogs@ubuntu:~$ tar zxf transset-df-4.tar.gz cd transset-df-4/
tar: cd: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
twodogs@ubuntu:~$ make
bash: make: command not found
twodogs@ubuntu:~$ sudo make install
sudo: make: command not found
twodogs@ubuntu:~$
twodogs@ubuntu:~$

it will not do the 'make' for some reason. do you know why? i'm a noob and still new to linux. thanks for your help.

You need to enter the commands one by one; you need a space between the following two commands:

Code:

 tar zxf transset-df-4.tar.gz 
cd transset-df-4

**23meg** · November 22nd, 2005

Originally Posted by fabs0028

Thanx a lot for this great tutorial
I just had to rebuild alltray cause i'm on an amd64 ubuntu but it was perfect.

Anyway really love that transparent terminal on my screen, it is really usefull.

Thanx one more time

Happy that it's working for you; I hadn't noticed that there's no AMD64 build of alltray; can you make a deb file of your build with checkinstall? Since it doesn't have any dependencies it should be fine. I can also add a link to it in the guide.