Re: [LINUX5250] xt5250 background/transparency/tints

["Nathaniel Smith" <j9znnvnqjn60001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:00:57PM -0600, James Rich james@eaerich.com 
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> On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, tonyl wrote:
>
> > Has anyone ever managed to get a transparent or tinted background out of
> > xt5250? I thought about using aterm instead of xterm, but just changing the
> > xt5250 script to use aterm with the required arguments doesn't work.
>
> Last I heard from Jason and Mike tn5250 required a real xterm to work.  So
> eterm and aterm are no good :(

Funny; I run:
rxvt -geometry 80x25 -sb -sl 500 -ls -vb -fn 10x20 -T '<title>' -e \
  tn5250 <hostname>
and it works fine (though the cursor is black on black -- there must
be some way to fix that without going to xterm, though).

IIRC rxvt's can do all that transparency stuff if you want them to.

-- Nathaniel

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