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This tutorial will explain how to create a Transparent Terminal in Gnome Background using alltray

With AllTray you can dock any application with no native tray icon (like Evolution, Thunderbird, Terminals) into the system tray. A high-light feature is that a click on the “close” button will minimize back to system tray. It works well with Gnome, KDE, XFCE 4*, Fluxbox* and WindowMaker*. (*) No drag ‘n drop support. Enable with “-nm” option.

Install alltray in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install alltray

This will complete the installation

Configuring Transparent Terminal

First you need to open Gnome Terminal from applications—>Accessories—>Terminal

Once it opens go to Edit—>Profiles

Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen here you need to Press the New button

Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen here you need to give the new profile a name and click on create

The profile editor dialog should open.

Here, uncheck ‘Show menubar by default in new terminals’.

Go to Effects tab, select ‘Transparent background’ and set the transparency amount close to None.

Go to Scrolling tab and select Disabled from the drop-down list.

Close the editing profile dialog and in the Profiles dialog, select the newly created profile from the ‘Profile used when launching a new terminal’ drop-down list of your choice and close it.

Create a new launcher on the Desktop (right click on the background)

Now you need to enter a name for it,insert the following command in the ‘Command’ field,comment field and click on ok

alltray -x -st -g +380+5 “gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=http://www.ubuntugeek.com/feed/tterm --geometry=110x30"

Launcher created on desktop as follows

Make sure that one of your Gnome panels has the ‘Notification Area’ applet.Open the launcher created on the desktop and click on the terminal icon in the notification area. You should now have a transparent terminal in your background.

One more Transparent Terminal screenshot

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A text menu based utility for configuring init script links.It provides extensive explanations at each step. Some features supported by sysvconfig are:

- Enable or disable services.
- Edit init links.
- Restore from backup file if you make a mistake.
- Menu or command line interface.
- View all services, each with its status and a brief description.

Sysvconfig also installs a ’service’ script much like that found on Red Hat systems.

Install sysvconfig in ubuntu

sudo aptitude sysvconfig

This will complete the installation

Using sysvconfig

If you want to open sysvconfig use the following commnd

sysvconfig

Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen

if you want to enable/disable the services select the first option and press enter

Now you should see similar to the following screen here you can select or unselect the service

Using Service Command

Sysvconfig will install service command to start,stop,restart the service using service command use the follwoing format

sudo service apache2 restart

sudo service apache2 stop

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