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How to make Terminal semi-transparent?

rated 0 times [ 16] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 133957 / 2 Years ago, thu, june 16, 2022, 8:16:47

I am running Ubuntu 11.04 with gnome 2.3 and I would like my terminal window to be transparent.

The problems is the transparent settings in my terminal just shows the desktop background and not the actual windows that are opened behind the terminal. This works on my laptop where I have Xubuntu 11.10 and I see no reason why it should not work the same here.

This is how it should look:

This is how it looks:

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answered 2 Years ago izeeas · Accepted Answer

If you are using metacity make sure you have compositing enabled. To turn on run the following command in terminal:

gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --type bool true