Video Intro, and how to put a gnome terminal as background Well, I'm Emiliano present, I live in Mendoza, Argentina and studying Computer Engineering at the University of Mendoza. I have an Acer Aspire 3690, Celeron M 430 to 1.7 Mhz, 1GB of RAM, Intel 945 video card and 120GB hard drive. I mainly use Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Feisty Fawn or deal as I never was shit lol and Windows XP (I can not help me like games). And one more thing I hate the iPod (and the latest addition to the iPhone too!), It is my opinion I know, I'm willing to argue with the choice, but if I have to choose an mp3 would be the last thing you would choose. The idea of \u200b\u200bthis blog is to spread good ideas and help you need to use Ubuntu I also put things you find, and scripts and programs made by me and others as well. Good luck.
devilspie better to start with (program to put the gnome terminal as wallpaper)
First install from the repositories: (Remember to have enabled universe and multiverse)
sudo apt-get install devilspie
mkdir ~ / . devilspie
nano ~ / .devilspie / DesktopConsole.ds
The first command creates a directory, and the second opens a file for editing, to save on nano using ctrl-o and then ask us where we want to save and archive ENTER give, then exit using ctrl-x. Inside the file
we
this:
(
if (matches (window_name) "DesktopConsole)
(begin
(set_workspace 2)
(below)
(undecorated)
(skip_pager)
(skip_tasklist)
(wintype" utility ")
( geometry "+50 +50")
(geometry "924x668")
)
)
With set_workspace give the desk where we want it then appears the terminal.
Personally I use this configuration: (No works perfectly, but I like walking better than before, note: with my configuration so I never change my desktop, but I left on the main desktop but it is a matter of moving in a second)
(if
(Matches (window_name) "DesktopConsole)
(begin
(set_workspace 4)
(undecorated)
(below)
(skip_pager)
(skip_tasklist)
(wintype" utility ")
(geometry" +6 +5)
(geometry "1024x768")
)
)
Then open a terminal, and create a new profile with the name of DesktopConsole
After this we will show the setup screen of the terminal, there are GENERAL tab we have to disable the option "Show the menu bar in new terminals by default," then in the tab "Effects" choose "Transparent Background" and finally "Shift" open the list next to "The scroll bar is" and choose "Off".
Now finally, the terminal and devilspie added to the list of programs that run at startup, so we are going to "System \\ Preferences \\ Sessions" and there we click "New" and added:
devilspie
gnome-terminal - window-with-profile = DesktopConsole
That would be all, and the result is something like: (The terminal cover all the icons, but good)
With devilspie You can do a lot of combinations to handle windows as you like, here have a page with references devilspie commands
http://wiki.foosel.net/linux/devilspie
And a special thanks to http://www.alejandrox.com/ as much of this tutorial is to him, the only thing I did was to spread and add a few things to my taste.