If you’ve used my guide to install compiz-fusion on your Fedora system and want to add a sexy embedded terminal to your flashy new desktop, follow these instructions.
- Go to Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal.
- Go to Edit -> Profiles.
- Click New, type desktop and click Create.
- Match your settings to these screenshots.
You’ll need to adjust the colors to suit your wallpaper.
Now click close, and close the terminal window. - Go to System -> Preferences -> Look and Feel -> CompizConfig Settings Manager.
- Click on Utility. Enable Regex Matching.
- Click on Effects, then Window Decoration. Add “!title=desktop” to the Decoration Windows field. Precede it with “&” if something is already there.
- Click on Window Management, then Window Rules. Add “title=desktop” to the following fields: Skip taskbar, Skip pager, Below, Sticky, Non resizable windows, Non minimizable windows, Non maximizable windows, Non closable windows, then click Add at the bottom. Enter “title=trans” to Sized Windows, and set the height and width of the invisible terminal window.
- Click on Place Windows, then go to the Fixed Window Placement tab. Click Add in the Windows With Fixed Positions field. Enter “title=desktop”. You can leave the coordinates at 0,0 for now. Use ALT+Click+Drag to move the window.
- Go to System -> Preferences -> Personal -> Sessions. Click New, then give it a name and this command: “gnome-terminal –window-with-profile=desktop”
- Now, open a terminal and run this command: “gnome-terminal –window-with-profile=desktop &”
If you did it right you’ll end up with something like this.
How did it work for you? Let me know in the comments.
5 Comments
any idea how to get this to automatically start on desktop #4 at startup?
tried to copy & paste the string:
gnome-terminal –window-with-profile=desktop
but the double hyphen got lost in translation & it took a moment to see that. Otherwise it worked great on ubuntu fiesty, thanks!
@Guy
Sorry, I don’t know how to assign it to only one desktop. You may want to look at viewports…
@cheeze
I’m glad you found success with this method!
hi,
just tried this on Fedora 8 and did not work for me, what it does it just opens new, exact the same, terminal. Any ides what i did wrong?
Thanks,
Bee
Works great for Fedora 8!!! Perfect!! Thanks!!
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