Помогите побороть Xterm!

You can't do this. The backgroundPixmap resource is a pixmap of the
same depth as the screen, not a bitmap (which is a pixmap of depth 1). Because
of this, writing a generic String to Pixmap converter is impossible, since
there is no accepted convention for a file format for pixmaps. Therefore,
neither the X Toolkit or the Athena widget set define a String to Pixmap
converter, because there is no converter you cannot specify this value as a
resource. The Athena widget set does define a String to Bitmap converter for
use in many of its widgets, however.

P.S. С переводом помочь? :-)

Ладно, а по другому сабж сделать можно?

Взять другой эмулятор терминала, aterm например
man aterm
  -pixmap: file[;geom]
     Specify image file for the background and also optionally  spec-
    ify geometry of the image to be cut out of original image, to be
    used as background, with a geometry string.  Note you  may  need
    to  add  quotes to avoid special shell interpretation of the `;'
    in the command-line; resource backgroundPixmap.

Плохо с английским? Бывает...

Нет, просто под aterm нет возможности управлять всплыванием/iconify/etc из скрипта... :-(
Поетому и xterm так нужен...