[clue-tech] Using a terminal/console for the desktop

[Brian Gibson]

Embedding the terminal in your desktop
http://www.stampersite.com/wordpress/20070905/how-to-create-a-transparent-terminal-session-as-your-desktop-background/

Drop-down terminals a la Doom/Quake...
...for Gnome
http://tilda.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
...for KDE
http://yakuake.kde.org/



--- Michael Fierro <miguelito at biffster.org> wrote:

> On Friday 11 January 2008 09:39:03 am Angelo
> Bertolli wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know of a package or way that I can
> turn the default
> > "desktop" (i.e. that thing that has a background
> and displays the
> > ~/Desktop folder) into just a console/terminal
> application?  I wasn't
> > able to find anything that does this on search.
> 
> KDE can be configured to use an application to write
> to/draw the wallpaper. I 
> don't know if an interactive terminal can be
> launched, but it has to be at 
> least worth a try.
> 
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