Truly Transparent gnome-terminal

[Bill Nottingham]

Joseph Phillips (jphillips at amphus.com) said: 
> Please pardon my vanity, but will the next release of RHL support truly
> transparent gnome-terminals?
> 
> I'm not talking about the pseudo-transparency of the past, wherein the
> terminal simply displays the portion of the background image.  With this
> sort of fake-transparency, any window, that comes intermediate between
> the terminal and the background image, is not displayed.  Instead, the
> background image is displayed, even though the object directly beneath
> the terminal is another window.
> 
> I know this is a cosmetic feature, but I'd be willing to bet that, as
> far as cosmetic features go, this one ranks pretty high up there in
> terms of feature-requested popularity.

Not with the standard X servers, no. The infrastructure within
XFree86 just isn't there to support this, regardless of the app.

Bill