[Tfug] Running a terminal in the root window

[Leo Przybylski]

How about this solution?

Run Eterm borderless and set the height and width of the terminal to be 
whatever your current screen size is. With Windowmaker, you can then run 
it "omnipresent" (or on all desktops), and run it under all the apps. 
That way, even if it is focused, it will never be "raised". You can also 
do the exact same thing with gnome-terminal.  Windowmaker also has the 
ability to run your apps "borderless", so that makes it so even xterm 
will work. I believe Eterm would be better though because of the 
benefits Eterm naturally has.

-Leo Przybylski
http://foopan.leosandbox.org
http://grow.arizona.edu

Samuel Hart wrote:

>Here's a poser for you guys...
>
>I want to be able to run some sort of terminal in the root window of my
>X desktop. (So that my background is a terminal ;-) I have seen it done
>before in screenshots around the web, but haven't figured out how it's
>done (and I can't find any screenshots of it right now).
>
>The basic gist of why someone would want something like this: imagine
>you have multiple desktops and are doing multiple things in them. You
>have a terminal open with an IRC session in it (perhaps you're coding
>with people across the country in an open-source project like, idunno,
>tux4kids ;-) Wouldn't it be nice to have that terminal full-screen,
>borderless, and occupying all desktops in the background so that when
>someone says something, regardless of which desktop or app you're in,
>you can see it?
>
>Now, I have tried doing this with normal Xterms, Aterms, and the like by
>just maximizing them and making them sticky, but that still leaves a
>border, and if you ever click on it or paste to it, it focuses over
>whatever other apps you have running (or, at least it does in most WMs)
>
>(Also, I know Eterm can be run borderless, but it doesn't solve the
>other problems)
>
>So, can anyone enlighten me as to how they do it?
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