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My goal was simple. configure Eterm under KDE.

Eterm is one of those cool transparent terminal programs you see in desktop snapshots. After downloading the package, I installed it with the command:

rpm -i Eterm-0.8.9-1.ppc.rpm

Next, copy the folder /usr/share/Eterm to your own home directory and stick a period in the beginning of the name to make it invisible (.Eterm).

Inside the .Eterm folder is a text file called MAIN. It contains all the color settings for the terminal. Look for things like:

menubar color Midnight Blue

Feel free to change these settings. If you screw up, you can always recopy the original back in /usr/share/Eterm.

To get the desktop to show through, you have to set it with Esetroot. I typed the following:

Esetroot /the/path/to/your/picture.jpg

This means you do not set the background with the Desktop Control panel in either KDE or Gnome. Use those programs to set the Desktop to a color - not a wallpaper

Once the background is set, assign a menu command, or program template to execute Eterm with the following parameters:

Eterm -O --tint 0x8080FF --shade 10 --save-under

The results can be seen in the by clicking the preview picture above.