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Hello! I want to have Terminal in my desktop background so I dont have to open up terminal windows.. I guess for lack of better explanation.. I want it to be like how you can have conky blended into your background. Thanks!
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Hello! I want to have Terminal in my desktop background so I dont have to open up terminal windows.. I guess for lack of better explanation.. I want it to be like how you can have conky blended into your background. Thanks!
If you search on anything (google, this forum, the wiki, ubuntu, ms-forum ^_^) I find that this is a frequently asked and answered question... but I can't make it work on Openbox (and from the answer you find on the search, on other wm). The problem is on you hit the 'show desktop' button or equivalent you term is minimized.
I cannot find a solution for this, but what I do is filter the output of terminal program using python and make it parseable by conky and use conky to output it on desktop. I use this to put my calendar on my desktop, like this ss:
If this is what you like you can adapt my hack (all hard codded, and not much pythonic) for you needs:
http://soc.if.usp.br/~kazuo/palfmt.py
If you need any help on the code ask ^_^'
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I cannot find a solution for this, but what I do is filter the output of terminal program using python and make it parseable by conky and use conky to output it on desktop. I use this to put my calendar on my desktop, like this ss:
http://soc.if.usp.br/~kazuo/conky_pal.png
I'm curious how it looks like. Unfortunately your screenshot doesn't load.
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I have this through compiz, if you're using it try http://maketecheasier.com/terminal-as-t … 2008/05/21
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I have this through compiz, if you're using it try http://maketecheasier.com/terminal-as-t … 2008/05/21
With XFCE4, I managed to get a terminal like in this screenshot.
I'm very satisfied
Except for the color, but it's difficult to choose a colour wich is beautiful and clearly readable on light pink and dark grey.....
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kazuo wrote:I cannot find a solution for this, but what I do is filter the output of terminal program using python and make it parseable by conky and use conky to output it on desktop. I use this to put my calendar on my desktop, like this ss:
http://soc.if.usp.br/~kazuo/conky_pal.pngI'm curious how it looks like. Unfortunately your screenshot doesn't load.
This works: http://fma.if.usp.br/~kazuo/conky_pal.png ?
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Ok I got it to work with devilspie.. just another question.. How do I get it do that it doesnt have a window? for example.. for Conky if I set own_window no.. then it doesnt have its own window... Thats what I want for this if thats possible.. like what koooothor has.. oh and I forgot to say that im using GNOME and GDM.. sorry ^^
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You mean so it doesn't show up on your taskbar? Look at the skip_tasklist option in devilspie.
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Well thats one thing.. but thats not what i meant.. um.. Check out this image:
Conky on the top of the screen doesnt have a window. Thats what I want for Terminal.
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i always use tilda, which is in community, for those purposes. you can configure everything in its options.
then just start it automatically logging into you de or wm.
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I'm not sure which terminal you mean (you're using gnome, but it sounds like you mean xfce's terminal since it's called "Terminal"). If you're referring to xfce's terminal, then you can deselect the option in Preferences -> Appearance -> Display borders around new windows.
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No im talking about Gnome.. I posted earlier that I used Gnome.. But tilda huh? Ill try that out thanks hcjl
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Yes I saw that you said you were using gnome, so I said I wasn't sure which terminal you were using since xfce-terminal is named Terminal. Gnome-terminal probably has an option in its preferences to hide the borders as well, although I can't say for sure. You can also use something like rxvt-unicode and put this in ~/.Xdefaults:
urxvt*borderLess: true
urxvt*scrollBar: false
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OHH ok my bad.. Ive never used XFCE. No Im using the Gnome one. I got it to work with tilda.. but 1 thing hcjl.. when I type, text disappears in the shell as I type.. is this normal?
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amranu wrote:I have this through compiz, if you're using it try http://maketecheasier.com/terminal-as-t … 2008/05/21
With XFCE4, I managed to get a terminal like in this screenshot.
http://xs132.xs.to/xs132/08431/screen1979.png.xs.jpgI'm very satisfied
Except for the color, but it's difficult to choose a colour wich is beautiful and clearly readable on light pink and dark grey.....
Kooothor,
Can you explain how you managed to setup your desktop like this? I like your system stats/info at the bottom of the desktop.
Thanks,
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Well thats one thing.. but thats not what i meant.. um.. Check out this image: http://imageshack.us/?x=my6&myref=http: … pid=430298
Conky on the top of the screen doesnt have a window. Thats what I want for Terminal.
That link doesn't work, but from other posts, I think what you mean is that you want a borderless window. This should be handled by the undecorate option in devilspie.
Of course, it's possible I'm misunderstanding you again.
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Dieter@be wrote:kazuo wrote:I cannot find a solution for this, but what I do is filter the output of terminal program using python and make it parseable by conky and use conky to output it on desktop. I use this to put my calendar on my desktop, like this ss:
http://soc.if.usp.br/~kazuo/conky_pal.pngI'm curious how it looks like. Unfortunately your screenshot doesn't load.
This works: http://fma.if.usp.br/~kazuo/conky_pal.png ?
Both work now. Looks nice, but it's probably hard to have an interactive terminal like this.
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Removing window decorations is one thing that Devilspie does. I had one on my desktop for over a year using the instructions in this thread with devilspie and gnome-terminal:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … al+desktop
Just replace sudo apt-get install with sudo pacman -S
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