X11: How to get a transparant term with Eterm
(last edit: 2000-11-22)
                   Command line
This is the command:

user@host:~#Eterm -f white -c white -x -D 0 -W -O --shade 80% --scrollbar off --menubar off

See the summary of the Eterm man page below for an explanation:

Theme
Or you can create a theme (e.g. called 'lowlife') and start Eterm:

user@host:~#Eterm -t lowlife

You probaley can put the theme in you home dir, but I've just put it in the global dir:

user@host:/usr/local/share/Eterm/themes/lowlife#ls -al
total 12
-rw-r--r--    1 me    users         364 Nov 18 16:20 MAIN
user@host:/usr/local/share/Eterm/themes/lowlife#cat MAIN


begin main

  begin color
    foreground white
    cursor white
    scrollbar black
    unfocusedscrollbar black
    video normal
    shade 80%
  end color

  begin attributes
#    geometry 132x50+100+100
  end attributes
  end attributes

  begin toggles
    scrollbar on
    borderless true
    menubar off
    trans on
    watch_desktop on
  end toggles

end main
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For an exact explanation: see the man page. Below are the man page entries of the command
line options and with a little imagination you can match the command line options with
the options specified in the 'MAIN' file.

Man Eterm

       -f color, --foreground-color color
              Set  color  as  the foreground (text) color.  NOTE:
              this will  actually  be  the  background  color  if
              reverse video is also selected.

       -c color, --cursor-color color
              Use color as the cursor color.

       -x, --borderless
              This option forces Eterm to have no borders.   This
              also means that the window can not be moved (unless
              the -V or --menubar-move option  is  specified)  or
              resized.   Recommend  using --geometry as well with
              this option.

       -D desktop, --desktop desktop
              Starts the Eterm on the specified desktop.  desktop
              should be an integer between 0  and  your  highest-
              numbered desktop.  NOTE: You must have a GNOME-com-
              pliant window manager for  this  feature  to  work.
              Please  see http://www.gnome.org/devel/gnomewm/ for
              more information on the _WIN_WORKSPACE property and
              how to support it.      

       -W, --watch-desktop
              In  a pseudo-transparent Eterm, this will watch the
              desktop for changes to the image, Eterm moving to a
              different  desktop, etc.  Use with the transparency
              options below.

       -O, --trans
              This gives a pseudo-transparent Eterm.   The  image
              is  taken  directly  from  the  root window, so any
              requests for changing the pixmap are  ignored.   If
              you do not use Enlightenment (http://www.enlighten-
              ment.org/) as your window manager, you will need to
              use  the  Esetroot program in the doc/ directory to
              set your root background image.


       --shade percentage
              Darkens the background pixmap (either an image file
              or  the  transparent  portion  can be shaded).  The
              amount of shading is controlled  by  the  specified
              percentage,  which  may or may not be followed by a
              percent sign.

       -s, --scrollbar
              Enables the scrollbar. (Default) 

       --menubar
              Enables the menubar. (Default)