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:
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:
- (from Tilda Wiki) If your fonts look weird in some way try turning on double buffering. In the Preference window, the General tab, select Enable Double Buffering.
- How do I turn off 'focus stealing prevention' in Beryl, so focusing will run proper with Tilda?
- A bug report has been filed in launchpad to get this possibly added to tilda in Ubuntu officially:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tilda/+bug/116224
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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May 22nd, 2007 - 11:27
Woo, works with compiz too. Many thanks
May 22nd, 2007 - 11:39
woo great, maybe i can stop loading yakuake and kde libs now
thanks
May 22nd, 2007 - 11:41
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!
May 22nd, 2007 - 11:50
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/
May 22nd, 2007 - 11:52
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
May 22nd, 2007 - 12:51
Thanks for the info Tristan.
May 22nd, 2007 - 13:17
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.
May 22nd, 2007 - 13:38
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!
May 22nd, 2007 - 13:49
It works
Have you sent the patch to upstream?
Thanks
May 22nd, 2007 - 15:08
Not my patch, just built a package from it.
May 22nd, 2007 - 15:37
First I’ve heard of this…and…bloody fantastic! Thanks for spreading the word.
May 23rd, 2007 - 03:59
In general options, at the settings manager, change the focus stealing prevention value to none
June 12th, 2007 - 17:15
Looks like this will be added in Gutsy.
July 16th, 2007 - 19:32
Works like a charm. Thanks.
I don’t suppose its possible to do outside of Beryl / Compiz? ..just in nautilus I mean?
November 11th, 2007 - 11:13
What font are you using for the GNOME windows?