Transparent Terminal Hack
This one was requested quite often lately, so here's a quick&dirty hack to make the Terminal transparent. The Terminal-side changes are pretty easy, just use ARGB visuals if possible. The VTE patch is really just a hack for the Xft backend with a hardcoded alpha value of 0xaaaa. You need to run a composition manager for this to work (i.e. xfwm4 with --compositor=on), and select solid background color in Terminal (as said, the VTE patch is just a really quick hack). The result is:
- Patch for Terminal, works with latest SVN.
- Patch for VTE, created with 0.11.18, but should also work with newer versions.
Anybody willing to create a clean patch for VTE (requires quite a lot of changes, but doable)?
posted by Benedikt Meurer at
01:14
9 Comments:
I applied the patches and it works great!
Thanks
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kong, at 30/3/06 06:13
Hi there,
Could you tell me how to patch theses files
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Anonymous, at 7/4/06 02:50
As usual: Download patches, then apply using "patch < /path/to/patch.file".
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Benedikt Meurer, at 7/4/06 19:13
Im desperate to get xfce4.4 :-). When is it going to be released ??? Soon I hope
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Jorge Herrera, at 10/4/06 06:26
Thank you very much for this decent post. This hack is lovely.
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Anonymous, at 18/4/06 22:12
I found this patch for gnome terminal and libvte and ported it to Terminal. Details and patches here (Apologies for the shameless blog link)
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James Westby, at 25/4/06 02:10
great tips. The Terminal is a bit sluggish. Does it happen to anyone
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Anonymous, at 31/5/06 21:04
great tips. The Terminal is a bit sluggish. Does it happen to anyone
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Anonymous, at 31/5/06 21:05
In reply to the post from James Westby: I tried your hack but it doesn't work. The terminal background keeps being dark, even if I set the trasparency. I suspect there's something wrong in the vte hack or maybe I've done something wrong. Any suggestion?
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Anonymous, at 24/8/06 04:35
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