True Tilda Transparencies

[This is a third party package that can not be supported by the Ubuntu Developers or Canonical]

I have become a big fan of the program Tilda. Tilda is a Linux terminal that drops down a borderless terminal window when a key is pressed, taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games (Quake, Doom, Half-Life, etc…).

One problem tilda has is that does fake transparency, showing your background wallpaper but slightly darken behind the tilda window. If you are using Beryl or Compiz, you can get true transparency installing this deb package (Click the deb link, and have gdebi automatically install the package).

Screenshot:
Tilda Screenshot
My Tilda Configuration (put in .tilda directory): config_0
Transparency Patch (from http://kldp.org/node/76875): tilda-0.09.4-real-transparency.patch
Source Files: tilda_0.09.4.orig.tar.gz
Diff Files: tilda_0.09.4-0ubuntu3~3rdparty.diff.gz
Debian dsc File: tilda_0.09.4-0ubuntu3~3rdparty.dsc

Notes:

Contact me if you have any problems with this package, do not file a bug report on http://www.launchpad.net.

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Posted on May 22, 2007 at 10:37 am by Mike · Permalink
In: Ubuntu Linux

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  1. Written by blah
    on May 22, 2007 at 11:27 am
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    Woo, works with compiz too. Many thanks

  2. Written by sno
    on May 22, 2007 at 11:39 am
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    woo great, maybe i can stop loading yakuake and kde libs now :D thanks

  3. Written by bartaz
    on May 22, 2007 at 11:41 am
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    I’m also a great fan of tilda and I had my beryl configured to make tilda windows transparent.
    It wont be needed anymore, thanks! :)

  4. Written by kenkku
    on May 22, 2007 at 11:50 am
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    This is a great idea and I tried Tilda, love it! My friend mentioned me YaKuake, which is the same concept for KDE and I think that’s even better than Tilda (being a KDE user myself).

    http://extragear.kde.org/apps/yakuake/

  5. Written by Tristan Sloughter
    on May 22, 2007 at 11:52 am
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    Tilda has true transparency in the cvs version. Thanks for making this patch though! Great to see people are enjoying Tilda. I plan to look at this and compare to the one already committed.

    Tristan

  6. Written by Mike
    on May 22, 2007 at 12:51 pm
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    Thanks for the info Tristan.

  7. Written by Paul Betts
    on May 22, 2007 at 1:17 pm
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    I’m not sure if you did this (you probably did), but always try to get your patches into upstream (ie send it to the Tilda people) *first*, then try to get it included as a vendor patch.

    Vendor patches should be only to make it fit within Ubuntu, or to work around devs that don’t cooperate (see Jörg Schilling of cdrecord fame; great hacker but not very helpful to the community). Kudos anyways for releasing the package, I’ve never tried Tilda but it looks handy.

  8. Written by Holger
    on May 22, 2007 at 1:38 pm
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    Yesterday I heard LUG radio talking about tilda. Today I thought I try it and I too was missing real transparency. Now you post a patched deb package. …Stop reading my mind! :)

  9. Written by pacho
    on May 22, 2007 at 1:49 pm
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    It works :-D

    Have you sent the patch to upstream?

    Thanks

  10. Written by Tilda con trasparenze reali « O.S. Revolution
    on May 22, 2007 at 1:50 pm
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  11. Written by Mike
    on May 22, 2007 at 3:08 pm
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    Not my patch, just built a package from it.

  12. Written by JGJones
    on May 22, 2007 at 3:37 pm
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    First I’ve heard of this…and…bloody fantastic! Thanks for spreading the word.

  13. Written by Zootropo
    on May 23, 2007 at 3:59 am
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    How do I turn off ‘focus stealing prevention‘ in Beryl, so focusing will run proper with Tilda?

    In general options, at the settings manager, change the focus stealing prevention value to none

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    on May 25, 2007 at 7:24 am
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  16. Written by Mike Basinger
    on June 12, 2007 at 5:15 pm
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    Looks like this will be added in Gutsy.

  17. Written by Christer Edwards
    on July 16, 2007 at 7:32 pm
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    Works like a charm. Thanks.

    I don’t suppose its possible to do outside of Beryl / Compiz? ..just in nautilus I mean?

  18. Written by Dominik
    on November 11, 2007 at 11:13 am
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    What font are you using for the GNOME windows?

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