How do I get that cool transparent xiterm?
You can’t. There is no such thing. The “transparent” effect you are looking for is actually just a *term program (xiterm, rxvt, whatever) with a background pixmap identical to the desktop. The user carefully lined up the *term so that the pixmaps appeared to be the same ones. Apparently, the newest version of Eterm has a “transparency” option. If you decide to use it, I hope you have a couple of million extra CPU cycles lying around! The transparent Eterm actually just reads the current background, than then tries to keep the Eterm background lined up correctly. In order to make this work, you will need to use esetroot, or use the new pager introduced with the 1.5 series. The new pager offers support for Eterm. You will still need to get all the necessary libraries for Eterm, however. There is also a program called roottail, which allows you to tail messages onto the root window. This is useful, for instance, if you want to view /var/log/messages without having an extra xterm open all
