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Originally Posted by anemos
But if you see BSDKaffee's desktop here, you can see the application behind the terminal. |
If you have desktop effects enabled in KDE4, you can make any window transparent to varying degrees. You can also specify just the window decorations or other menu items. In Konsole, you can also just make the background transparent.
As suggested, you need a compositing enabled window manager to make the entire window transparent for true transparency. Most apps that have transparent backgrounds like KDE3 apps use fake transparency which is basically just a superimposed screenshot. Therefore if you moved the window around, the transparency wouldn't change until the window was dropped again.
Here you can see I even have xterm transparent:
