Here’s a small tutorial on how to display your linux terminal directly on your desktop and execute commands from there. I was testing this on Ubuntu 9.10, but it should work on other linux distributions too.
I’m assuming you have basic linux knowledge and ‘apt‘ installed on your machine.
In console apply the command: sudo apt-get install tilda
If everything went well, you’re now ready to configure tilda with: tilda -C
When a configuration window is opened, you can freely experiment with the settings. I’ve only changed the size of the text and the transparency in my case.
If you want to run tilda on startup of your desktop manager, simply go to System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications, click on add, enter any description you wish and the command tilda
Please note that you can toggle tilda by default with the F1 key.
Screenshot is available here.
That’s it, good luck!
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