Bug 222053 – x11-terms/aterm-1.0.1* ewarn statement is somewhat inaccurate

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Mark Tiefenbruck 2008-05-14 09:41:25 UTC]

Here, for your convenience, is the offending code:

	ewarn "The transparent background will only work if you have the 'real' root wallpaper"
	ewarn "set. Use Esetroot (x11-terms/eterm) or fbsetbg (x11-wm/fluxbox) if you are"
	ewarn "experiencing problems with transparency in aterm."

fbsetbg is a shell script that looks in your system for a suitable program to set the wallpaper. Using fbsetbg without installing another program won't be of any use. fbsetbg recommends Esetroot, feh, and wmsetbg (from windowmaker) for making transparency work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2008-05-22 02:40:28 UTC]

So, in other words you recommend: 

"The transparent background will only work if you have the 'real' root wallpaper    set. Use esetroot (x11-terms/eterm) or wmsetbg (x11-wm/windowmaker) if you are experiencing problems with transparency in aterm." ?

(I'm not familar with the utilities myself)

[Comment 2 Mark Tiefenbruck 2008-05-26 02:19:16 UTC]

Well, to me, recommending eterm in the aterm ebuild seems a little peculiar. To be honest, I usually recommend feh, since it doesn't come with much extra baggage. Its only purpose is displaying images. On the other hand, since setting background images is not its main purpose, finding the right options in the manual is not very easy, as opposed to esetroot and wmsetbg. I think there's something to be said for including all three.

[Comment 3 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2008-05-29 02:01:38 UTC]

Ok, thanks for your input. Clearly, I am not familiar with the tools but would like to fix something that isn't accurate. How about a more general approach below, would a unfamiliar user gain any benefit with this over the existing message?

"The transparent background will only work if you have the 'real' root wallpaper set. Some tools that might help include: esetroot (x11-terms/eterm), wmsetbg
(x11-wm/windowmaker), or media-gfx/feh."

[Comment 4 Mark Tiefenbruck 2008-06-06 03:17:18 UTC]

Yes, that looks good, with one caveat: esetroot should be Esetroot.

[Comment 5 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2008-06-06 03:28:35 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Yes, that looks good, with one caveat: esetroot should be Esetroot.
> 

Thanks for your help! Done.