X11: How to get a transparant term with aterm
(last edit: 2000-11-22)
                   Install aterm. See '/usr/ports/x11/aterm' for more info and/or installation. 

Use the following options:

aterm -rv -tr -trsb -sh 70 -cursorColor white -cursorColor2 black -geometry 60x25+10+20 

man aterm
 -rv                  Reverse. The manpages, pine and so on will not look good if you 
                      don't use this option.
 -tr                  Tranparant
 -trsb                Transparan scrollbar
 -sh 70               Shade, makes the background look shaded. The 70 is the percentage, 
                      0 is no shade 100 is black
 -cursorColor white   This is the background color of your cursor.
 -cursorColor2 black  This is the foreground color of your cursor.
 -geometry lxw+x+y    Size and position of the aterm. Specify in this order: 
                      the length x the witdth + x-position + y-position