[Tfug] Running a terminal in the root window

[Leo Przybylski]

Each window manager has its own way of managing sticky/omnipresent/etc 
windows. I'm sure all can do it. I haven't noticed that many will make 
maintain the level of the each window the way WindowMaker does. I used 
to use WindowMaker (I do no longer), and it was good for me when I used 
it. I wouldn't force you to use it if what you needed was provided in 
another window manager.

As for Eterm, it is a product of rasterman and so its purpose is purely 
for eyecandy. It can do a lot of cool things visually that no other 
terminal can do. Aterm is similar but not as feature rich as Eterm. 
XGTerm is also very good in that it provides embedded support for SVG 
(for viewing statistical demographics in the terminal 
http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/web/projects/x11iraf/implot.gif). If you are 
creating dynamic bandwidth statistics in SVG or PS, then XGTerm can view 
the changes in realtime for you.

Eterm has its downsides though. It uses more memory and cpu than most 
terminal emulators. Many consider it to be bloated. I say that with the 
help of screen, you never need more than one term open ever. It also 
helps reduce the resource consumption.

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

Sam Hart wrote:

>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 ;-)
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>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 ;-)
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>begin  quote: On 03-01-09, Anthony Steckman wrote:
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>>The same solution would work under Sawfish.
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>>+ I'm probably responding to some of what was said below:
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>>. 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
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>>. How about this solution?
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>>. 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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