Comments on: How to create a transparent terminal session as your desktop background

By: Andrey

Andrey — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:02:07 +0000

fixed. delete my previous comment pls.

By: Andrey

Andrey — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:33:13 +0000

(if (is (application_name) “qutim” (geometry “+300+300″)))

(if (is (application_name) “easytag” (fullscreen)))

Doesn’t work. Why ???

By: Ubuntucoffeeman

Ubuntucoffeeman — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:43:42 +0000

Hey, I don’t see any pictures.
How am I supposed to follow the tutorial without pictures?!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:30:14 +0000

Abraham--

Try changing the (set_workspace 4) to whatever workspace number you want it on. Or, you could replace the command with (pin) which will make it visible on all workspaces.

Zounds--

Make sure that the
gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=DesktopConsole
runs after
devilspie
in System->Preferences->Sessions

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:40:10 +0000

I tried doing this on Ubuntu 8.10. Followed exactly but nothing happens. Only thing that happens is the file menus and stuff doesn’t show up on terminal. nothing is transparent or on the desktop and terminal still has the close, minimize buttons at the top

By: doez

doez — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:16:10 +0000

thank’s

By: Zounds

Zounds — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:33:16 +0000

Hey,
Thanks for the tutorial, I have one problem with it though: the terminal window won’t start up automatically, devil’s pie does but the terminal won’t. Now if I type the command for the terminal in by hand or even copy and paste it into another terminal it works fine and shows up transparent but it just does nothing when entered into the session manager, any suggestions?

Thanks

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By: Casey Stamper

Casey Stamper — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:37:23 +0000

Matt,

Oops, my bad… Those windows on the right side of the desktop are just screenshot files that I captured to use as an examples of how to install/configure devilspie. That’s just how they displayed - I didn’t configure anything.

By: Casey Stamper

Casey Stamper — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:35:37 +0000

The right hand side of the desktop is a utility called Conky which I also described on my website. I love it.

To all the rest of you - I’m not really sure how to solve the problems except by reading the documentation on devilspie. It works for me in Ubuntu, Suse and Mandriva, but not in Fedora. Go figure.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:33:09 +0000

Great guide man, been meaning to do this for a while but never settled on a background image until now… by the way, what do you use to set all the transparent monitors on the right hand side of your desktop?

By: Abraham

Abraham — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:50:20 +0000

I can get this to work, but it only opens on workspace 4. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

By: chyjinx

chyjinx — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:15:28 +0000

I get the following when i run devilspie in terminal, and I do have 4 desktops.

** (devilspie:8152): WARNING **: Workspace number 4 does not exist

(devilspie:8152): Wnck-CRITICAL **: wnck_window_move_to_workspace: assertion `WNCK_IS_WORKSPACE (space)’ failed

By: Ru4n

Ru4n — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:33:03 +0000

How can i disable minimalisation of this transparent terminal ?
For example: I use cedega for playing some win games and if i use ctrl+alt+d for minimization to come into transparent terminal, terminal is minimized too and i cant use him. thx

By: scotte

scotte — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:53:17 +0000

I tried it on Feisty with no luck at all. terminal does not even load. any ideas anybody, i followed both tutorials.
thanks.

By: rogue

rogue — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:29:54 +0000

After using the original page it worked like a charm thanks guys……………..

By: cstamper

cstamper — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:48:03 +0000

Vedang: I haven't tried it while compiz is running since my laptop won't run compiz well. It may have something to do with your problems. And thanks for the reply to Vikas. I tried to use CSS to create one of those code blocks that you see around the web but Wordpress killed the CSS that I put in the post. I had no problem copying the code/text directly from the original site.

By: vedang

vedang — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:50:35 +0000

@vikas
don’t copy the code from this webpage. some extra unicode character seems to get copied. I had the same problem, so I just wrote out the code myself, and voila.. problem solved.

By: Vikas Rawal

Vikas Rawal — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:17:35 +0000

I am running ubuntu 7.04 and have followed your instructions. I can’t get devilspie to work. When I do it from the terminal, it exits with the following error.

** (devilspie:19865): WARNING **: Error in parsing: Unexpected token encountered: 226
Cannot parse /home/vikas/.devilspie/DesktopConsole.ds: Unexpected token encountered: 226
No s-expressions loaded, quiting

I have the DesktopConsole.ds in the right place and it has the contents copied from this page.

Vikas

By: vedang

vedang — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:50:53 +0000

yup, i did that. tried it several times with different values. editing the first line ( “+50+50″ ) changes the position where the terminal appears, but editing the second line makes no difference.
i should mention that i use compiz-fusion. though i don’t see how that matters.