HOWTO: Terminal as the desktop background.

**Wallakoala** · July 3rd, 2006

can someone tell me how to get that cool semi-transparent effect in the second screenie?

I am using compiz.

**Wallakoala** · July 3rd, 2006

anyone?

**bulldog** · July 3rd, 2006

Execute the HowTo and all should work perfectly.
You use Xgl/compiz so you should get the effects you want.
Can't tell you more it's all explained on this pages.

**joakim2** · July 3rd, 2006

Originally Posted by bulldog

Execute the HowTo and all should work perfectly.
You use Xgl/compiz so you should get the effects you want.
Can't tell you more it's all explained on this pages.

Seems like compiz still decorates the window... at least for me.

**Wallakoala** · July 4th, 2006

with mine it is just the same as without compiz. I don't know why it doesn't work.

**Johnnyboyct** · July 4th, 2006

I have it working, thanks alot, the howto worked well enough to get me to make it work lol...

Anyways, I have it working, but no matter what i do, it goes in workspace 1, also, if I change the size, it shows the titlebar and frame around the window. Am I doing something wrong.

Thanks I love it

**baraider** · July 4th, 2006

Originally Posted by Wallakoala

can someone tell me how to get that cool semi-transparent effect in the second screenie?

I am using compiz.

Same here, what is the geometry dimension for the semi-transparent?

**jinacio** · July 11th, 2006

Originally Posted by Johnnyboyct

I have it working, thanks alot, the howto worked well enough to get me to make it work lol...

Anyways, I have it working, but no matter what i do, it goes in workspace 1, also, if I change the size, it shows the titlebar and frame around the window. Am I doing something wrong.

Thanks I love it

thats a weird glitch (after switching to/from workspace 4 a couple times it goes away)... what i did was remove "(set_workspace 4)" and add "(pin)" instead - it now shows on all desktops, so no glitch

I have no clue on why it doesn't work on some desktops, all i can say is try following everything to the letter, and good luck

**michaelt** · July 13th, 2006

[QUOTE=jinacio;1172497]The objective is to have a gnome terminal running as the desktop background, right above the actual background image, that won't be displayed by the statusbar or ticker...

Code:

devilspie
gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=DesktopConsole

I tried this and eventually succeeded, but eventually abandoned develspie. Once I'd figured out how to play with geometry of the terminal window, and to have it open without titlebar, and to open with multiple tabs, I realized there wasn't a great advantage to devilspie's approach. I'd prefer that the transparency apply to solid-colour desktop backgrounds and gradients (not just images) and that the transparency be real, rather than simulated (i.e. you can see through terminal windows to what is actually on the desktop - something that's possible with OS X, for example, on another of my computers).

For those interested in automatic multiple tabs, its a simple matter of adding

Code: