Aterm refuses to be transparent

I know I post here a lot, but I'm still a newbie, so here's the problem: i installed fluxbox-devel with aterm. i set all the settings in .Xdefaults according to this and i always get the black screen with white text. even running aterm -tr -trsp -sh 50 doesn't work. I have a bright red background, so i would expect it to work, but it doesn't. I can't find an answer anywhere, so could someone plz help me?

OK OK OK, I GOT IT. I used robot5x's config, but i had to tweak ONE thing, here's what I have now
aterm*scrollTtyOutput: false
aterm*backspacekey: 10
aterm*deletekey: 177
aterm*foreground: white
aterm*background: black
aterm*transparent: true
#aterm*shading: 10
aterm*saveLines: 1000
aterm*tintingType: true
aterm*tinting: #c0c0c0
aterm*fading: 50
aterm*transpscrollbar: true
aterm*troughColor: red
aterm*pointerColor: green
aterm*pointerColorBackground: black
aterm*loginShell: true
aterm*colorBD: yellow
aterm*colorUL: magenta
aterm*cursorColor: red3
aterm*cursorColor2: yellow
aterm*scrollBar: off
note that aterm*shading is commented, but the windows is still shaded. I think it's the fading thing. anyone want to clarify?

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mcmillan wrote:I had fluxbox working and setup so aterm was pinned and transparent to look like it's part of the desktop. I recently decided to try out kde and wanted to do the same thing, but it opens with a black background instead of transparent. I can set it to other colors though. I was curious if anyone else has experienced this and knew how to solve it.
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mcmillan wrote:Also while I'm posting, I thought I'd ask a probably simple question. I want to change the setting so double-clicking opens directories instead of single clicking.
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I'll give it a try, but it seems that setting transparency in the terminal would nullify an image, or making a gradient-transparent image the background might just show the default background of aterm/urxvt. Other than that I'm not sure what to try...there are a lot of options that I don't understand in the mans.
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josh000 wrote:I'm not 100% sure, but out of these I think only urxvt fits the bill, with aterm and mrxvt only supporting pseudo transparency. Is this correct?
Urxvt does both real and pseudo transparancy, but this still needs your wm to have composite enabled. Also roxterm or evilvte may be an alternative. For urxvt set transparancy in .Xdefaults like this (I'm not too sure anymore what it all does but you can google it):
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josh000 wrote:I also note in urxvt, mrxvt and aterm the home and end keys don't work, however they work in xterm just as they do on a tty.
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