Tuesday, January 06, 2026

bin/Eterm-borderless

Ah. I'm still using Eterm from times to times, but its default color palette isn't that impressive. I've been using it without border or any widgets for decades thanks to the drag-to-move and drag-to-resize features of Enlightenment. but in August 2024, I made a few changes to the "Eterm-borderless" script that is bound to ALT+F5:


Eterm --borderless 
      --font-fx none        # else it tries dropping a shadow 
      -f white              # foreground color
      --double-buffer 
      # -x                  # (alias for --borderless)
      --cmod "96 255 255"   # trick for tinting the background towards green
      -O                    # transparent
      -0                    # immotile transparency optimization
      --scrollbar=0 --buttonbar=0 
      --color8 rgb:60/60/60 # better dark-grey
      --color3 rgb:cc/aa/00 # orangeish dark yellow looks better
      $* &
  • --viewport-mode is fundamentally what I do with my "restore-bg" trick
  • the default color8 (dark grey) is rgb:33/33/33, which is really too dark for any purpose
  • today's finding: an alternative to -f white could be --colorDB white -f rgb:dd/dd/dd --color7 rgb:bb/bb/bb. That gives you a default color that is bright-but-not-quite white while still having the true white when things are bold, without sacrifying any shade of gray. 

1 comment:

PypeBros said...

if you need more, maybe theia is for you...