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Transparent aterm and international character encoding

One of the best ways to make your fluxbox desktop easier on the eye is to add a transparent terminal. The best terminal for this is aterm, which is both lightweight and endlessly customizable, but lacks UTF support. However, other character sets are supported so there's a good chance you will find the one you need.

Transparency

Here's an example command for a transparent aterm:

aterm -tr -trsb +sb -sr -si -bg lightgray -fg white -fade 75 -tn xterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15 -g 78x24 -rv -tint darkgray -sh 30

Encoding

I had to change the encoding so that aterm wouldn't garble any non-english characters in mail sent from mutt.

Here's the part you have to change in the command:

-fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15