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RE: OT - Terminal embedded in desktop
- From: Jean-Claude Gervais <jc dot gervais at videotron dot ca>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 08:41:40 -0400
- Subject: RE: OT - Terminal embedded in desktop
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi Biju,
Thanks for taking the time to try and understand.
I know I am not totally clear.
I'm not looking for something for Windows.
It's something for X, Gnome, KDE, or whatever other X thingie I'd need to
run it where the desktop is a normal Linux X desktop, with icons and things
on it, but at the same time, it is a terminal window.
The terminal window is transparent, yes.
But not transparent like a lot of X terminals I've seen that only put the
same bitmap that the X root window is using in their client area.
With normal terminals, you see a fake transparence; it simulates
transparence by using the desktop bitmap as a background in its (the
terminal's) window.
I'm talking about a desktop applet (maybe an applet, maybe something else,
I'm not sure)
that is a terminal window, covering the desktop, but really transparent.
And if you click on an item on the desktop, you can activate it.
Does that make any sense?
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On
Behalf Of Biju G C
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 3:55 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: OT - Terminal embedded in desktop
--- Jean-Claude Gervais <jc.gervais@videotron.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
> Also, the terminal window, since it is the desktop, would not
> have a border, would take up the entire desktop and could not be moved. It
> would not appear in the window list of the window manager.
>
> Is there such an animal?
>
> Is it an application, a window manager or a combination of the two?
>
> Thanks.
R u looking some thing like the following
They are not X Window manger,
But May be use it along with XWin.exe
(I have not tried)
http://blueboxshell.org/
http://bb4win.org/news.php
http://www.litestep.net/
http://indiestep.sourceforge.net/
http://www.lokai.org/
http://www.geoshellx.com/
http://geoshell.sourceforge.net/GeoWiki
http://carbon.shellscape.org/
http://shells.lokai.net/
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