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by davb 1024 days ago
Meta, but I love the simplistic design of the landing page. That textured background is so much less brutal than a solid colour. I thought about using a background like that in my terminal (to give it a very subtle paper like quality) but was surprised to find nothing online about other people doing the same (I had hoped for screenshots and texture packs).
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Eterm used to have a support pack with some nice backgrounds for tiling, which sadly appears to be more difficult to find than it would've been a decade ago. I did find a mirror¹, but that is purely because I remembered the filename for some strange reason. Some of the textures in tile/ are still quite nice, but not all of them work so well with our modern higher resolution displays from a quick play.

¹ https://distfiles.macports.org/Eterm/Eterm-bg-0.9.6.tar.gz

Its curious you couldn't find anything, tons of terminal emulators out there support this, I'm not sure what platform you're on, but on macOS, iTerm2 supports image backgrounds, on Linux, kitty is my goto customizeable terminal emulator, and I think even the new Windows Terminal supports them! Also, I think gnome's terminal emulator has an effect like this on it by default (or at least it did in some distro's default setup I've used)
It wasn’t that I couldn’t find a terminal supporting background images (indeed, this is very well supported). It was that I couldn’t find anyone referencing using subtly textured (slightly noisy) images to avoid a very solid background.
Most of the ones I’ve seen that support backgrounds have the usual options to tile/stretch the background, what’s stopping you from finding a pattern you like and making it a tiling background? There used to be a (now defunct) site out there called subtle patterns that had a massive CC0 library of these kinds of textures, toss it in an image editor, apply a color you like, tile it and call it done!