When I was still able to use aterm-0.4.2, if I set it to use transparency, transparent scrollbar and shading 100 i.e. full transparency without effects [aterm -tr -trsb -sh 100], the (correct) result can be seen in the following screenshot: http://personal.inet.fi/cool/l33tmmx/aterm042.png Now, when 0.4.2 was removed from portage and I was forced to upgrade, applying the same settings [aterm -tr -trsb -sh 100] to aterm-1.0.1, the results can be seen in the following screenshot: http://personal.inet.fi/cool/l33tmmx/aterm101.png As you can see, the scrollbar transparency isn't working. I noticed that the bug manifests itself *only* if the shading is set to exact 100 [-sh 100], if set to 99 or lower, or 101 or higher, the scrollbar transparency works as expected. My aterm is compiled with USE="-background -cjk -xgetdefault", I toggled the "xgetdefault" flag but that didn't help. "background" is out of question, I don't want to install a whole window manager just to get a terminal working.
From man 1 aterm : -sh amount This option allows for darkening/lightening of the background image amount is the %value of the desired brightness, where 100 is the original. if amount is less then 100 - image will be darkened. if amount is less then 0 or more then 100 - image will be lightened. Lightening can cause some strange looking effects if applied on bright image. This option causes aterm to create shaded/lightened copy of the background - it´s more mem‐ ory cosuming as the result. It does not make much difference, though, if applied on non transparent background image. resource shading. As you can see, the sh 100 behaviour is at purpose.
Actually, shading set to 0 returns better behavior than sh 100. (In reply to comment #1) > From man 1 aterm : > > -sh amount > This option allows for darkening/lightening of the background > image amount is the %value of the desired brightness, where 100 > is the original. if amount is less then 100 - image will be > darkened. if amount is less then 0 or more then 100 - image > will be lightened. Lightening can cause some strange looking > effects if applied on bright image. This option causes aterm to > create shaded/lightened copy of the background - it´s more > mem‐ > ory cosuming as the result. It does not make much difference, > though, if applied on non transparent background image. > resource shading. > > As you can see, the sh 100 behaviour is at purpose. >
