Re: gnome terminal: Things I want

["Ben FrantzDale" <frantb rpi edu>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>
To: Paul E. Johnson <pauljohn@ukans.edu>
Cc: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: gnome terminal: Things I want


>
> > 1. Instead of having one picture background set all the time, can you
> > make it pick randomly from a subirectory?  I'm looking at the output
> > from "gnome-terminal --help" and there does not seem to be a command
> > line argument for the background image. Too bad.
>
> This seems simple to implement.
>
> > 2. Can the background image be made to scale, rather than tile?
> >
> > If gnome-terminal could do these things, then I would not have to keep
> > fussing over Eterm and the many complicated library issues that come up
> > when using it.
>
> Simple to do too.  Extremely simple actually.
>
> But we will have to wait for the next batch of changes.
>

Last I checked transparent gnome-terminals didn't like tiling backgrounds
(it only showed the top left tile). Once this is fixed, I too expect to
switch from Eterm.

--Ben