[rxvt] Shading feature disappeared?

[fonz]

Hi all,

If I remember correctly, long ago rxvt supported (colored) shading, meaning that the terminal was basically transparent but with adjustable brightness and even the possibility to use color, giving kind of a filtered look. But I can't find it anywhere in the manual.
Does this mean: this feature has been dropped from rxvt; it is still there but I must have accidentally compiled rxvt without this feature; rxvt never had this, I'm confusing it with another terminal emulator that does; something else?

Thanks in advance,

Alphons

[DutchDaemon]

You're linking to a non-existant FreeBSD manual for a program that's available in /usr/ports/X11/rxvt .. The port has 'transparency support' according to make config, but it's not on by default.

[vermaden]

@fonz

Maybe you are taliking about rxvt-unicode?

[fonz]

You're linking to a non-existant FreeBSD manual for a program that's available in /usr/ports/X11/rxvt ..

Whoops... mea culpa.

The port has 'transparency support' according to make config, but it's not on by default.

Yes, I know. And it's been enabled. It's the shading (or "tinting", I seem to recall it was called) I'm asking about.

Alphons

[DutchDaemon]

Off-base, but still: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4749351&postcount=5

[fonz]

Whoopie, problem solved! (well, it wasn't really a problem, more a would-be-cool-if thing, but still :h)

@DutchDaemon: Indeed, that's exactly what I was looking for.

Maybe you are taliking[sic] about rxvt-unicode?

You are spot on: the rxvt port seems to support pure transparency only, but the build of rxvt-unicode just finished and this one supports transparency with shading, tinting and whatnot.

Thanks,

Alphons