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transparent background & configuring ALL colors
Submitted by MrBark on Thursday, 12 February, 2009 - 02:30
Hi !
Firstly I would like to thank you for your contribution of the open source world ! Eye-wink

So, I think that a transparent background should be really welcomed !
i.e. if you use a transparent cube in compiz, it's really comfortable to see a bit the windows of the others workspaces behind your code, you can see if you have mail in your browser, if someone is speaking to you on pidgin or if your compilation in another terminal is finished... and you code in the same time.
Actually, I'm using... vim ! (in a transparent terminal) just because of that reason !

And another thing/problem :
You can configure the colors of the text, background, selected line, etc.
But if you choose a black (or dark) bg color, and sure a white text color, there's a problem in perl language :
some characters still black !
i.e. the { } of a if... so it's black on black...
is there a solution ?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help !
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The first one is not an easy
by elberry on Thu, 12/02/2009 - 21:29
The first one is not an easy task to accomplish, but would not be a bad plugin. The issue is that Java doesn't currently support true transparent windows. There are some tricks to make it work but they almost always cause performance issues. It basically involves telling Java to take a screenshot of the desktop (ignoring the Java application) and then you have to manually show that screenshot as the background image of the TextArea.

As for the second part - You just need to keep playing around with the syntax highlighting settings until you find the right token type for the {} symbols (probably OPERATOR). Also, you may want to look at the EditorScheme plugin which has a bunch of pre-made color schemes.

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