transparency of gnome console

[S. William Schulz]

Lothar Braun wrote:
> Hi Marco,
> 
> On Friday 22 September 2006 10:07, Marco wrote:
>> I set the profile of gnome console to transparent because I want to read
>> what's in the covered window. But the transparency does not display any
>> other windows but just the background image of the desktop. Why?

Speaking of transparency and the gnome terminal, is there a way to 
remove the window features (border, command bar, etc) so that one can 
display text on the desktop without having the scrollbars, etc showing?