<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 12222005 2035 GMT-5 True transparent being for all apps - then yes. That is what I was talking about. Wade Peter Garrett wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20051223094909.76f4df35.peter.garrett@optusnet.com.au" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:24:22 +1100 David <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:david@kenpro.com.au"><david@kenpro.com.au></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 12:30:17AM +1100, Sasha Tsykin wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">You can mak terminal windows transparent. Open a terminal. Then click Edit => Current Profile and select the effects tab. The last option is "transparent background". Select it and move the slider to select how transparent you want the window to be. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">I just tried this... .and I assumed that I would be able to see through the terminal window to any icons beneath.. unfortunately that doesn't appear to be the case. Did I misunderstand the point? thanks.. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Sounds like you are expecting "true" transparency - this method only gives " pseudo transparency" ( you see the background, but not icons, other windows behind the terminal etc) True transparency *is* now possible with the new extensions to xorg - but it's quite new and isn't configured by default. Peter </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>