Re: gnome terminal: Things I want

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley att net>]

Ben FrantzDale wrote:

> ----- 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.
>

What version of gnome-core are you using?  I thought this had been fixed a
while ago (as of 1.0.9, maybe?).

Dan