configure aterm help

[speX]

is there a tutorial on how to configure the looks of Aterm? like change the color/font of text, make the terminal so its just a semi transparent box..... and stuff like that? if no... could someone post some basic commands?

thx in advance

 

ps: im using fedora core 4

 

edit: if thers is also a tutorial on how to configure xterm... could you plz post as well? thx

[znx]

Well you can do it via the command line (obviously) or with Xdefaults, once more gentoo comes to the fore with this:

 

[/url]http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Linux_Colors_in_Aterm/rxvt tips on colouring

[url=http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=68555]http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=68555 tips on tampering with aterm's general setup

 

Hope that gives a good example, I can help tweak it more with you as I am an aterm user :)

[speX]

cool thx :P ill ask u when im stuck :)

[speX]

i was wondering how do i make aterm completly transparent so it looks like my background has text, so that its borderless etc...

 

is it even possable in gnome?

[znx]

i was wondering how do i make aterm completly transparent so it looks like my background has text, so that its borderless etc... 

is it even possable in gnome?

 

Making aterm borderless and transparent is easy enough:

Code:

aterm -borderLess -tr +sb

 

That is ..

"-borderLess" (remove titlebar etc)

"-tr" ("fake" transparency, it just copies the background into the terminal background)

"+sb" (removes the scrollbar)

 

I did a bit of looking after we had the chat.. it looks like Metacity is incapable of borderless windows, most seem to be switching to Sawfish instead which is capable of handling borderless windows.

 

Also maybe trial gnome-terminal, looks like you might be able to tamper with it to get borderless/transparent

[speX]

i put that code into aterm and it worked :) but how do i make it stay like that cause when i close it.. its back to the way it was before.....

[z0ny]

That's what the aforementioned ~/.Xdefaults file is supposed to do. If it's not there, create it and enter something like that:

 

Code:

Aterm*geometry: 80x24+10+10
Aterm*transparent: true
Aterm*scrollBar: false

 

If you want to add a certain parameter have a look at 'man aterm', the Xdefaults equivalents to the command line parameters are quite well documented in there. As you can see in the snipped above you can specify the window location with the geometry "parameter" (10px from the upper left corner in the example).

[speX]

i that im suppose to configure /.Xdefaults but wats the code to make it completly borderless for good? that i put inside the Xdefaults file

 

edit: MUHAHAHA thx to znx i have made a pretty sexy desktop set up for a noob like myself :)

 

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:)

[speX]

say..... i was wondering if its possable to set aterm so that i can copy and paste stuff from it? cause currently i cant and i have to move back to gnome-terminal in order to copy and paste...

[z0ny]

Mark the text with the left mouse button, copy with the right mouse button and paste with the middle button (or left+right at the same time if you only have a two button mouse). ;)