[rxvt] Shading feature disappeared?

F

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
 
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.
 
DutchDaemon said:
You're linking to a non-existant FreeBSD manual for a program that's available in /usr/ports/X11/rxvt ..
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Whoops... mea culpa.

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

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