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SOLVED: Fake Transparency in LXTerminal or xfce4-terminal?
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 5:03 pm
by kevtardis
Have not been able to figure out how to do 'fake transparency' in either terminal emulator listed.
I can make the terminal window transparent, but the desktop wallpaper only shows inside the emulator window if there are no open windows between the terminal window and the desktop.
Any thoughts on how to do this would be welcome. Thanks.
kevtardis
Re: Fake Transparency in LXTerminal or xfce4-terminal?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:18 am
by fehlix
kevtardis wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 5:03 pm
Have not been able to figure out how to do 'fake transparency' in either terminal emulator listed.
I can make the terminal window transparent, but the desktop wallpaper only shows inside the emulator window if there are no open windows between the terminal window and the desktop.
Any thoughts on how to do this would be welcome. Thanks.
kevtardis
Well , it workw for me like shown below: Background is shown and other open windows behind are shown also.
terminal-transparancy.jpg
Re: Fake Transparency in LXTerminal or xfce4-terminal?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 3:25 pm
by kevtardis
I get the same thing.
I'm shooting for a terminal window which shows the underlying wallpaper only, not any open windows items that may be between the terminal and the wallpaper.
Here's a screenshot from another Linux install to show what I'm after...
Thanks.
Re: Fake Transparency in LXTerminal or xfce4-terminal?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 3:38 pm
by fehlix
kevtardis wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 3:25 pm
I get the same thing.
I'm shooting for a terminal window which shows the underlying wallpaper only, not any open windows items that may be between the terminal and the wallpaper.
Here's a screenshot from another Linux install to show what I'm after...
Thanks.
Ahh---, now I understand. It looks like an openbox kind of linux. What linux is the screenshot from.
Re: Fake Transparency in LXTerminal or xfce4-terminal?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 5:48 pm
by asqwerth
Did you turn off the Xfce compositing under window manager tweaks?
Re: Fake Transparency in LXTerminal or xfce4-terminal?
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 12:18 am
by kevtardis
asqwerth, turning off xfce compositing did the trick.
Will mark thread as solved.
Thanks.