[Tfug] Running a terminal in the root window

[Anthony Steckman]

The same solution would work under Sawfish.


+ I'm probably responding to some of what was said below:

. Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 16:26:33 -0700
. Subject: Re: [Tfug] Running a terminal in the root window
. From: Leo Przybylski <leo@leosandbox.org>
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. 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
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. http://grow.arizona.edu
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. 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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