On November 19, 2003 05:44 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > gabriel wrote: > > i saw the coolest thing the other day on another computer running > > windowmaker. > > > > the guy had aterm running in the middle of his screen, but there were no > > window decorations, no close button -- nothing. just the xterm complete > > with prompt. he was using it to print debug info and leaving it > > semi-transparent on his desktop. > > > > it looked really cool > > > > can kde do this with konsole? or do i have to install aterm? if i have > > to use aterm, how do i prevent the kde window decorations from appearing > > around it? > > The command to start Konsole with no decorations is: > > kstart --type Override konsole > > Now, if you want to have it transparent, there are several default Schema > settings. Look in: "Settings => Schema". You can also get rid of the: > "Menubar" and: "Scrollbar in the: "Settings" menu. After you delete the: > "Menubar" you have to right click to set stuff. To get rid of the frame: > "Settings => Configure Konsole" uncheck the: "Show frame" box and click: > "Apply". Then click: "Settings => Save Settings" and this is now your > default, but you still need to use 'kstart' to start it without the > decorations, so you need to change this in the relevant 'desktop' file. sweet! thanks! -- forgive your enemies, but never forget their names - john f. kennedy ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.