Windows terminal with alpha transparency for the desktop pimp
Today I finally got around to picking up a wide screen LCD for my office, following a growing trend towards 16:9 ratio viewing area that’s happening all around us. With all this new space to fill I’ve gone on a bit of a mission to beautify my desktop with various shiny things that will astonish my fellow cubicalists and stupify the computer-illiterate (eg. lawyers *cof* odog *cof* couldn’t even open a browser *cof* ahem). For a good 15 minutes I was completely obsessed with making my terminals transparent so I could keep the fugly catalina tail on my 2nd monitor without it ruining my otherwise perfectly aesthetic desktop. I quickly discovered that of the various transparent-window-making-applications I could find, none could control the transparency of good old cmd.exe.
Enter the open-source terminal-enhancer Console2 that is nothing more than a facade over the default terminal, and nothing less than everything cmd.exe should be! Could it be that those Micro$oft buffoons don’t value the aesthetics of my desktop? I think an update to the boring old command line window is well overdue! A close-to-erupting Steve Balmer said it best: Developers, developers, developers…
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Where’s Willie?
As of Saturday 21st of August, 2011
Web Developer and aficionado of all sports involving boards and bats. Currently taking advantage of the travel options afforded me by my genetics by living in London and leaving as often as possible.
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