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Does anyone know if/how can I make konsole or xterm completely transparent?
When I say completely, I mean even the shortcuts behind it be visible.
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I don't think xterm supports transparency. Try aterm
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XTerm doesn't support transparency (my only gripe about it). With Konsole, you should only need to set up a transparent background in the schema you are using; and voila. In other terminals derived from rxvt, such as aterm and rxvt-unicode: I believe -tr/+tr toggles the setting. Gnome-Terminal should also be capable of it, some where..... Everything based on VTE also should support it I think.


I would suggest x11/rxvt-unicode (urxvt) or x11/Terminal if you don't want Konsole or Gnome-Terminal.
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Good light terminals that support transparency: urxvt(rxvt-unicode) / mrxvt
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I installed rxvt-unicode and it seems quite good and as TerryP said it can be transparent with -tr switch. Also, casting a glance at its man page I saw some very fancy things it supports. But if you see BSDKaffee's desktop here, you can see the application behind the terminal.
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He is using a Window Manager that (should) supports such things ;-)

For other window managers, you might start here and work across the links / manual pages for the programs mentioned.
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here, you can see the application behind the terminal.
You will need these for that kind of transparency:
http://freshports.org/x11-wm/xcompmgr
http://freshports.org/x11-wm/transset-df
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For other window managers, you might start here and work across the links / manual pages for the programs mentioned.
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You will need these for that kind of transparency:
http://freshports.org/x11-wm/xcompmgr
http://freshports.org/x11-wm/transset-df
Yes, that is exactly what I need!
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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:
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