Transparent Blurred Terminal!
You ever experimented with the terminal opacity under The Current Profile option in the menu? I find, plain opacity is just annoying and distracting. So here’s a little trick thats easy on the eyes as well as to do. 
This somewhat resembles aero, Windows Vista’s glass effect. It doesn’t bother me, I think aero looks pretty cool. Anyways, the steps are as follows, and should take maybe 3-5 minutes depending on how fast you are.
So first, you’ll obviously need Compiz fusion. Gutsy comes with it default, so just make sure you have a driver for your graphics card and Desktop Effects enabled. You’ll be needing cssm (compizconfig-settings-manager) for this guide as well. As wordpress doesn’t seem to like the apt: link, just do this in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
Now, open up a terminal and go to: Edit -> Current Profile. Once there, Under the “Title and Command” tab, leave the original title and change Dynamically-set title to “Is not displayed”.
Now go to the “Effects” tab and choose “Transparent Background”; make sure it’s not fully opaque, I’d use something around half. Now, lets launch ccsm that we just installed (or already have 
) by going to: System -> Preferences -> Advanced Desktop Effects Settings.
Look for the “Blur” plugin, and click on it. Enable it by hitting the check-box on the left side. Now, under “Alpha blur windows” type: title=Terminal. Now, set the Blur filter to Gaussian, Gaussian Radius to 15 and Blur saturation to 0.
That should be it. I hope you enjoy this one, you can do other things than just the terminal. I hope compiz does get improved sometimes soon and the plugins get updates and new ones introduced.
All the best to you,
nikoPSK
Any chance of a pic so we can see what the end result will be like?
lol, (
) Here you go:
http://img03.picoodle.com/img/img03/4/2/6/f_Screenshotm_e10d634.png
It all depends on how opaque you set it to in current profile.
I don’t know, but that seems to hurt my eyes worse
Noooooo!
I guess it’s not for everyone Dr Small… 
I don’t like just plain opacity though, and this has a nice effect.
It doesn’t work for me
Really? It doesn’t work if opacity full.
Yeah, no go
I’m using Emerald and I can see that Emerald gets blurred, but it doesn’t seem to have any affect on the terminal. I have it set to about 70% opacity.
Nevermind, apparently it needs to be title=Terminal not type: title=Terminal
lol, at least you got it. Enjoy!.
Nice effect
But I don’t think it’s my kind of thing. I like to have the terminal full screen sometimes and look through it at the web page I am copying commands from.
Hey, by the way, nice theme for your blog
This must require a really good graphics card. I run an ATI Mobility Radeon 2100, and the blur almost froze my computer. I can run most things fine… I use most of the effects. Blur kills it though.
Looks neat, however.
[...] Neat: Transparent blurred terminal. [...]
I know, it suits it.
That’s odd… blur shouldn’t do much to slow your PC…
Thanks !
this effect doesnt work on my pc with ATI graphics card, HD4850.. i have the background semi transparent, but when i enable blur in compiz, the background becomes 100% opaque.
Instead of using the title to match the window, you can also use its class, as explained in http://wiki.opencompositing.org/WindowMatching
So for a gnome terminal under “Alpha blur windows” you insert
class=Gnome-terminal
Thx for the hint, though. I very much like the blur effect.
Addendum: the way i described above lets you blur the terminal without setting its title to “Terminal”.