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- BlueSkyfish, on 07/15/2008, -1/+9http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
- inactive, on 07/15/2008, -2/+9Actually it is very funny that 40-60 years after we first saw a big humming machine in a room with black and green screen attached to it, where you would sit down and give it instructions, and we had the C64 with a small box and a blue and gray screen, the Apple ][c, Mac Classic, DOS, Windows 3.0a, win95, 98, ... OS X, Vista Aero, GNOME, KDE and compiz with the wobbly windows using all the super duper GPU power in the world to give you... a green on black terminal window!
ROFLMAO
/me loves it nonetheless - th3st, on 07/14/2008, -3/+10awesome. bring on the cool tuts!
- wolferz, on 07/15/2008, -2/+8This is actually kinda useless. It's neat... in theory. However when you try to apply wallpapers you will find that ALL wallpapers reduce the readability of the text in the terminal. If you don't use a wallpaper then why have transparency for the terminal? If you like using desktop icons that will go out the window as well.
And for what? A terminal that is always open? You're too lazy to open the terminal now? Well here yah go: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/how_to ...
now you can have your cake and eat it too... with half the effort of setting this up.
I suppose if you were to use almost exclusively the terminal but wanted access to the occasional gnome app this might actually make sense... but outside of that this is not very useful. - inactive, on 07/15/2008, -1/+5ok , although i'm not linux user this is really good ,
- skyshock1, on 07/15/2008, -1/+5Any reason to use the GUI if you're just going to full-screen the virtual terminal and use that to take up all your screen space?
- MrPig, on 07/15/2008, -2/+5Meh, not difficult to do. Just a creative application of settings already in the gnome terminal.
- jay019, on 07/15/2008, -0/+3Try Linux
- inactive, on 07/15/2008, -0/+3You'd be better off writing an OS from scratch than trying to do it in Win3.1 >_>
- ethos101, on 07/15/2008, -1/+4Useful if you wan to keep a kismet running on the desktop or for running things like airodump-ng in the background without having a separate window for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kismet_(software)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircrack-ng - gitboxgreg, on 07/15/2008, -0/+3Thats the worst game ever!!!!!
- webkami, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2OK I assumed an i in your comment. :(
- wolferz, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2If you tint the wallpaper enough to return readability you wont be able to clearly see the wallpaper. I've tried. And if you end up with 15 unused terminals then that is a completely separate problem... fix the cause not the symptom... the cause being failure to keep track of open windows.
Can't stand the quake style console? Then I'm pretty sure you wont be able to stand this... as there are no advantages to this method over the quake style consoles and the quake style consoles have several advantages over this. - nicktheawesome, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2You're a towel!
- ub3rgeek, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2any way to input with geektool on the desktop? I want to have a functional termanal on my desktop.
- dwaley, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2You don't need devilspie to do this if you're using compiz. see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3254093
- inactive, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2I use the terminal A lot. I'd like it as my desktop but i use KDE. And just tint your wallpaper if it's reducing readability...
It's not that i'm too lazy to open a terminal, but i end up with like 15 unused terminals... The quake style one i can't stand. - Culyt, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2What would be the point, the windows 'console' is useless.
Maybe power shell would be better but you still won't have things like text logs.
There are a few replacement transparent consoles around but because of the way windows consoles work (ie its more of a dos emulator than a console) they suck.
☢ - skimmas, on 07/15/2008, -1/+2It is certainly cool but I wonder if it will be of any usefull... gotta try it.
- Junior612, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1You could try using Quicksilver instead: http://www.blacktree.com/
A quick google search brought up this: http://www.mactips.org/archives/2008/04/02/quick-t ...
More:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en& ...
I dont find myself using terminal in OS X for much more than the quick server ping. But Geektool lets me keep an eye on the sys log to see what is going on behind the scenes. Ever wonder why a program won't display something correctly? Take a peek at the log and you'll most likely see the culprit. Since I've started using Geektool I've figured out that a majority of the problems I have are with themes I've installed with Unsanity's ShapeShifter. - skyshock1, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Yes, cygwin. :)
- inactive, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1Man, that was awesome - I still have trouble believing someone bought Ubuntu thinking it was a game...
- peedeeramone, on 07/15/2008, -0/+1personally i just want a terminal that sits almost completely transparent on my desktop that doesnt take up the whole desktoop.
rather, id just like to be able to go to my desktop and type a command and have a few lines of scrollable text above it.
or maybe i should just go with the quake style terminals... - SolidSnak, on 07/15/2008, -1/+2Well i guess its an alright tutorial for the fresh inexperienced linux users but there is no way that I would need this. I have my terminal as about half transparent with white text on black. Its easy to read and looks great.
- dougle, on 07/15/2008, -1/+2V useful for keeping track of logs, but not having them in the way
- Junior612, on 07/15/2008, -2/+3Meh: http://tinyurl.com/5a3ems
via GeekTool:
http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ - spydon, on 07/15/2008, -1/+2Doesn't it work if you have compiz on?
- skyshock1, on 07/15/2008, -1/+2Neat! Thanks for posting that.
- tcpik, on 07/15/2008, -1/+11 year ago, on digg, this would have at least made the top 10 stories dugg.
- Tetrohead, on 07/15/2008, -1/+1I've already seen this same exact tutorial on the front page like 3 times in the past 3 months.
- bigern75, on 07/15/2008, -1/+1This is old old news
I've known about this for a couple years now. - inactive, on 07/15/2008, -1/+1My tutorial is a lot simpler:
# .Xdefaults
aterm*background: black
aterm*foreground: white
aterm*font: -misc-fixed-*-*-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
aterm*boldFont: -misc-fixed-*-*-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
aterm*transparent: true
aterm*scrollBar: false
aterm*fading: 60
aterm*shading: 50
aterm*geometry: 80x40
aterm*termName: xterm
Why must these environments mess with what already works fine (.Xdefaults), which came before them long ago?
To make it stuck on the background is up to the window manager. Easily accomplished by changing the name, and then assigning window behavior for that particular window name. Ie, in windowmaker, I'd just remove the titlebar, resize, and borders, and make the window always on bottom, and run it on xinit or in the autostart file. Done. - inactive, on 07/15/2008, -0/+0Do the above with a specific window size. I used to do this when I was monitoring some things, but have moved on to other alert methods.
- djdingo, on 07/15/2008, -3/+1(windows key) + R
type "cmd"
press Enter
Alt + Enter - BLOODSUCKER, on 07/15/2008, -3/+1Any tool recommendations for windows ?
- mattlohkamp, on 07/15/2008, -4/+1you realize that phonetically you're encouraging them to "bring on the cool toots," right? Do you want to see some really cool photoshop toots? What've you been doing all day? Oh, you know, tooting. My girlfriend does toots for this Java site.
Let's never use that abbreviation again. - RBrenner14, on 07/15/2008, -7/+4I can do this in Command Prompt.
- Aero347, on 07/15/2008, -8/+2I can do this in windows 3.1
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