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There is no longer transparency in console/term windows. I have tried three different term/console progams and they all experience the same problem. Jessie did this out-of-the-box: i did not have to change any settings. In Wheezy it fails. Does anyone know what is going on here?
note: I did not use compositing before and I am not using it at the moment. This problem has nothing to do with compositing.
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One reason you have not received a response thus far may be your assertion that "This problem has nothing to do with compositing." There are many others here who are much more knowledgable about Linux in general and Debian specifically than I, but I am not aware of any window manager packaged by Debian which manages to provide transparency without compositing being involved. Since it appears you are running the Xfce DE, have you at least checked to see if compositing is enabled for xfwm (the native Xfce window manager)? You can do so by accessing the "Window Manager Tweaks" applet. If it is, and if you are not able to enable the type of transparency you referred to using that same applet (beneath the "Compositor" tab), then it is possible that your video card (or onboard video) is better supported in jessie than it is in wheezy; but since you provided no information about your hardware, that is only speculation. It is not, however, at all uncommon for one release to support a certain hardware type better than another. One release may fully support a given piece of hardware, while another may not support that same piece of hardware at all, or at best do so only partially or poorly.
wizard10000 wrote:terminator has its own transparency settings. Right-click the terminator window, select Preferences --> Profile --> Background and you should be able to fix it.
Good luck -
Thank you for the reply. It just happens that I use Terminator. The preferences in regard to transparency are somehow ignored.
I tried the Terminal and Eterm and got the same results.
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What has worked for me is enabling display compositing in the Window Manager Tweaks. Once you have done that go ahead and make your transparency settings in console/term windows.
Debian 11.5 Bullseye Xfce Linux Mint 21 Vanessa Xfce
Fascinating. "disable_real_transparency" is not in the man page for Terminator. I took a peek in the config file and it was not there either.
I tried putting it in my configuration file for Terminator. No help. I tried "disable_real_transparenty = true", "disable_real_transparency = false", "disable_real_transparency = 1" and finally "disable_real_transparency". This last one resulted in losing my profiles. D'oh. Restored the config file from a backup copy.
By the way, the problem happens in gnome terminal and in Eterm also, leading one to suspect that the cause of the problem is not within a particulat terminal program.
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Do you then regain your transparency?
If so, then the problem is your compositing system (built-in to xfce).
If you can't get it working, add xcompmgr to your autostart list.
