[LUAU] Is anyone using Eterm?

[Christopher Banal]

Bud,

	To use the backgrounds that Eterm is setup for by default you need
to download a tar ball of just backgrounds. I forget what the file name is
but it's something like Eterm-bg.tgz. If you don't want to bother and
would rather use your own change the background line in the
/usr/lib/Eterm/themes/Eterm/MAIN to this...

background -1 -1 /path/to/baground/filename.ext

	The -1 -1 will make Eterm resize your background to the size of
the window. If you would rather Eterm just tile your baground you can put
0 0 or whatever else you want depending where you want your background to
be placed. Also if you have a recent enough version you may use the
transparency option. Run Eterm with the -O or --trans option this will use
the background of the root window as the background for Eterm to simulate
a transparent window.

Chris

On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, HawaiiBuc wrote:

> Aloha everyone,
>   I just downloaded the RPM file for Eterm.  It looks really nice in the
> screenshots I have seen, but I can't get it to run.  It installed
> correctly, but this is the error message I get:
> 
> [whjones at a24n86client77 whjones]$ Eterm: parse error in file MAIN, line
> 96:  Invalid parameter list "file" for attribute background
> 
>   When I looked at line 96 in /usr/lib/Eterm/themes/Eterm/MAIN, this is
> what I saw (actually lines 95-97):
> 
>   begin pixmaps
>     background %random(`cat pixmaps.list 2>/dev/null`)
>     path
> "./pix/:~/.Eterm/:~/.Eterm/themes/Eterm/pix:~/.Eterm/pix/:/var/tmp/Eterm-root/usr/lib/Eterm/pix/"
> 
>   I used the -ivh switch to install Eterm, but none of the paths above
> were created during the install.  Is that common?  I can go back in and
> manually change them; that would be no problem.  What I'd like to know
> is what everyone else did, or if y'all had any problems setting it up.
> 
> Bud Jones
> 
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