Possible to get a transparent, borderless CMD prompt on the desktop for Windows?

Question

I use Windows 7, but am a big fan of Linux. However for this computer, I have to run Windows and wanted a transparent always on terminal for my desktop, something like this:

I tried using Glass CMD and Console but they're not the same. How can I possibly get a similar desktop CMD prompt on Windows?

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Thanks to Darth Android! I got my console2 working like I needed. also for any people who need to focus their console window, here's an autohotkey script.

Loop{
    if GetKeyState("LButton", "P"){
        if WinActive("ahk_class Progman"){
            MouseGetPos, xpos, ypos
            if(xpos > 522){
                if(ypos < 475){
                    if WinExist("ahk_class Console_2_Main"){
                        WinActivate
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }    
}

Answer 1

You can use a program called Console2 to create this effect. I have mine set up with an auto-hotkey script to produce a quake-style drop-down terminal, but you could just as easily stick it to your desktop, set the background color to be completely transparent, and strip the window decorations:

If you want to get it really similar to your *nix terminal, install Cygwin and configure Console2 to launch bash instead of cmd.exe or PowerShell.

The only caveat with the setup is it's a bit difficult to focus the window due to the nature of Windows' color-keying (i.e., clicking on transparent pixels actually click through the window to the desktop, instead of giving it focus), but that can be fixed with an auto-hotkey script configured to listen for mouse-clicks in specific areas of the desktop, and then transferring focus to Console2, or by simply alt-tabbing to it if you're willing to leave the icon in the taskbar.