Fluxbox Transparency

[Spyro_boy]

I'm having a lot of trouble with transparency and it's aggravating me a lot, and
ready to ditch linux for a while because it's pissing me off a tonne.

This is what's going on:
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* aterm will work with transparency when there is no -sh 50 for shading
* aterm will work with -sh 50 for shading after I restart X.
* xchat is not going transparent at all anymore.
* aterm only goes transparent with shading on workspace one without restarting X
* aterm will go transparent on all workspaces without shading and without restarting X

What I want is:
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* aterm to go transparent with shading on all workspaces without restarting X
* xchat to have transparency

The thing that is making me angry the most is that it was working the other
day and now it's not working at all. If anyone can help, I'd really appreciate it.

[spencerf]

for aterm I would use eterm instead imho it is much better looking and you can just select transparency under the "background menu"

can't help you with xchat.

go eterm

[Spyro_boy]

for aterm I would use eterm instead imho it is much better looking and you can just select transparency under the "background menu"

can't help you with xchat.

go eterm

I tryied installing eterm, and it wasn't working, so I quit at it.

Also now I tried doing:
spyroboy@britestar:~$ fbsetbg -f ~/imgs/et.jpg

and got this error:
Esetroot: error while loading shared libraries: libast.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

and X spits this out at me:
fbsetbg: Something went wrong while setting the wallpaper.
Run 'Esetroot -scale /home/spyroboy/imgs/et.jpg' from an xterm to find out what.

and when I run:
Esetroot -scale /home/spyroboy/imgs/et.jpg'

I get this again:
Esetroot: error while loading shared libraries: libast.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I went to install eterm again and got this:
http://pastebin.com/532530

I went to install lmlib2 which contained libast.so.1 in which eterm.org says it does.
and I STILL get an error where libast.so.1 doesn't exist. what the HELL.

This is the command I use to launch aterm:
aterm -ls -tr +sb -bg black -fg white -sh 50