I've searched the faqs and pumped google but I can't find any info on whether litestep can shade windows like blackbox. In blackbox on my redhat9 machine, I just double click on the title bar and the windows shades up into the title bar so you have a neat strip with user@hostname:pwd for quick and easy referencing and you can see other windows easily.

Ive only seen one instance of a shaded window in the "bad simian" theme:
http://www.litestep.net/index.php?section=2&action=details&id=152

at least it looks like a shaded window. Any help is appreciated.

There is a LiteStep module that does this...however right now I can't remember the name of it. You can also do it with WindowBlinds...heck even my video drivers add the support.

or shellwm, and i think azathoth made an app called Shade that does this.

try this: http://loose-screws.com/mdownload.php?id=336

WndMan.dll

TucknDar, that's what the link I posted pointed to. ;)