also sprach Derrick 'dman' Hudson <dman@dman.ddts.net> [2002.07.16.0020 +0200]:
> I don't know about the other terms, but gnome-terminal's
> "transparency" is really amusing. As Colin and some others mentioned,
> it merely copies the background. *However*, g-t copies the _gnome_
> background, not what is in the root window.
Same thing for aterm. That's precisely why it's not truely
transparent. Or rather the former is a consequence of the latter.
--
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if you don't have to fake it."
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