Re: I'm a l00ser baby!

["Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:10:44PM -0600, stevefx@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I was just wondering if something changed as far as backgrounds go. I used
> to be able to fire up tn5250 in a gnome-terminal and use the transparent
> background to make a 5250 session actually look kind of cool (ok, it
> impressed a few of my cow-orkers..some think I have too much time on my
> hands now though :). I haven't tried it since the 0.14.x releases, but it
> seems to paint its own background now? Is there anything I can do to
> re-enable this feature short of hacking the code?

I do this too.  It looks really spiffy with the backgrounds from some of my
WindowMaker themes, specially when you select 'Linux console' colors for the
ANSI text colors.  It's a gnome-libs version thing.  Some versions of
gnome-libs have "optimizations" for drawing text which cause side effects
like this one - colored text will have a solid black background as opposed
to the transparent one.  (I know this because I hacked a lot of code out of
gnome-terminal to make the beginnings gnome-5250...)  I think the newer
versions handle this correctly again (at least, it works at work and I recently
updated gnome-libs from updated RPMS on
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/updates/6.1/i386/ 
)

Transparency rules.  You couldn't burn useful CPU cycles for any other cool
features.  I certainly plan to put it in gnome-5250 one of these days, but
then, I haven't been able to get a workable gnome-5250 out there yet.

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Steve Fox
> http://w3.rchland.ibm.com/~sjfox (IBM Intranet)
> http://k-lug.com (Rochester Linux Users Group)
> 

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
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