Transparent Terminal

[pcarlos853]

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]

Go to (In a terminal) Edit -> Profile Preferences -> Background and then select transparent background.

[pcarlos853]

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]

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]

Do you have desktop effects enabled?

[Maheriano]

You need to enable Compiz I think, and maximize your graphic display setting thing.

[pcarlos853]

Changing my Desktop visual effects to normal made it work.

Thanks!
Carlos

[Krytarik]

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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