View Full Version : [SOLVED] Transparent Terminal
pcarlos853
May 26th, 2011, 10:38 PM
Hi All!,
I have been running Ubuntu 10.10 for quite some time now, however I remember in older versions of Ubuntu Desktop the terminal could be made transparent so you could see what was behind it. But for some reason on Ubuntu 10.10 I can make the terminal transparent, however I cant see the windows behind it all I see is the background. Anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks
Carlos
sanguinoso
May 26th, 2011, 10:42 PM
Go to (In a terminal) Edit -> Profile Preferences -> Background and then select transparent background.
pcarlos853
May 26th, 2011, 10:53 PM
Hi Sanguinoso,
I have done that, however my goal is to see what ever is open behind the terminal not my desktop wallpaper.
P.S. I know that there was a way to do this in older versions of Ubuntu
Thanks
Carlos
sanguinoso
May 26th, 2011, 10:58 PM
Ah, I didn't grasp that from your first post. The background looked black so I thought transparency was unset. My system behaves as you want it to by default. Have you installed any different window managers or decorators?
teachop
May 26th, 2011, 11:03 PM
Do you have desktop effects enabled?
Maheriano
May 26th, 2011, 11:03 PM
You need to enable Compiz I think, and maximize your graphic display setting thing.
pcarlos853
May 26th, 2011, 11:28 PM
Changing my Desktop visual effects to normal made it work.
Thanks!
Carlos
Krytarik
May 27th, 2011, 12:36 AM
To achieve the same just with Metacity, enable its compositing option:
gconftool-2 /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager --type bool --set true
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