[Tfug] Running a terminal in the root window

[Sam Hart]

Okay, so it works under Sawfish and WM.... is this "omnipresent" thing 
specific to those to, or can it work under any wm? (I personally prefer 
IceWM ;-)

Also, I'm curios (/really/ dont want to start a flame-war here... to each 
his own, ya'know?) what other benefits does Eterm have other than the 
background/tinting thing? (Which, for someone as dull as I, holds little 
draw ;-)

begin  quote: On 03-01-09, Anthony Steckman wrote:

> 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>
> . Reply-To: tfug@tfug.org
> . To: tfug@tfug.org
> . User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a)
> .     Gecko/20021212
> . 
> . 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.

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Sam Hart
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Personal addr. <criswell@geekcomix.com>
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