terminal as desktop background

[EdwardMorris]

I've read a couple articles describing how to do this using devilspie, and it kinda works when I start a terminal and run devilspie, but I neve got it to start ar session start up of F8. Has anyone got it to work right? i.e An undecorated terminal starts and appears to be the desktop background....?

[Seve]

( Moved to General Support )

[lmo]

What you mean?

xterm -fn 12x24
or
xterm -fn 10x20

[PabloTwo]

I had never heard of devilspie until your post here. Sounds interesting. I just visited a couple of sites hoping to see some screenshots of what your describing. No luck there. But I achieve pretty much the same effect as you describe sans/devilspie. Using a very minimalist window decoration with practically no border and no scroll bar or menu bar and by maximizing the gnome-terminal window.

That covers the entire desktop except for the upper panel (I autohide the lower panel). And, I have my terminal window with almost total transparency, so what I see is my desktop background wallpaper, a slim title bar (for the terminal window) directly beneath the upper panel, my icons showing through the transparency and whatever text is printed on the terminal and nothing more.

The only drawback to that method "as desktop background" approach, is that my desktop icons are not accessible except to either reduce the terminal window size or to just flip to another desktop pane and click on them there. Will post a screenshot if you're interessted.

Paul

[forkbomb]

I don't know if this is what you are referring to, but you could maybe adopt this to Fedora:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-cre...ackground.html

[EdwardMorris]

Originally Posted by tjvanwyk

I don't know if this is what you are referring to, but you could maybe adopt this to Fedora:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-cre...ackground.html

Thats exactly the article I read and it didn't work. i read a couple follow-ups on that page and some others have the same problems....

[forkbomb]

Originally Posted by EdwardMorris

Thats exactly the article I read and it didn't work. i read a couple follow-ups on that page and some others have the same problems....

I tried adopting the same article to Fedora and couldn't get it running, either.

[leadgolem]

I took a good hard look at this, and there are basically 3 problems.

1. You need to change a setting for your terminal profile.

Open a terminal. Go to edit/profiles select the "DesktopConsole" profile, click edit. Go to the title and command tab. Click the drop down next to "Dynamically-set title:" Change it to "isn't displayed". See screenshot 1.

2. There is some kind of syntax error the ~/.devilspie/DesktopConsole.ds file on that page.

Replace that file with one the same name containing this.

(if (and (contains (window_role) "gnome-terminal") (contains (window_name) "DesktopConsole")) (begin (set_workspace 1) (below) (undecorate) (skip_pager) (skip_tasklist) (wintype "utility") (geometry "+50+50") (geometry "924x668")))

3. The "transparent" terminal covers everything under it, making them invisible/inaccessible from that workspace. See screenshots 2-3.

[MarkS]

http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2007...-shell-on.html
(just remember to name them something other than just 'trans', eg '@!#trans')

[cable_txg]

Try this link:

http://linuxbraindump.org/2007/10/08...compiz-fusion/

[cable_txg]

Just be careful with the information on the link I provided; terminal worked, but hid the decorations for firefox.

[leadgolem]

Just so everybody knows, I have decided to abandon this approach in favor of using alltray for the apps I want instantly available, including a terminal. The fact that I could not effectively use my desktop bothered me too much.