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gnome-terminal package

Transparency in terminal window doesn't work properly

Bug #97123 reported by kranebitt
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GNOME Terminal
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

In Feisty, if I choose to have the terminal window transparent, first there is a time delay when I move it and second, it's not working properly with different layers, meaning that even if it is covering up 3 or 4 windows, the box still shows the background.

LG,
Andreas

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mneagul (mneagul) wrote :

I don't know if this is a bug. As far as I know gnome-terminal always implemented transparency like this because in the past XFree86 didn't have the composite extension....

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report.

Changed in gnome-terminal:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Medium
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-terminal:
importance: Medium → Low
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Ned (nedwilliamson) wrote :

In my experience the only way to have gnome-terminal achieve true transparency is to have compiz or beryl working.

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Roman Sergey (roman-sergey) wrote :

To my mind it is by design or misfeature. The sense of transparency is to show the respective part of Desktop background (wallpaper) as a background for terminal. Not more.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

could anybody try using compiz on gutsy? that should work correctly with really transparency

Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Closing it for now since no more information has been provided, feel free to re open it if you experience the same issue in Gutsy Gibbon. thanks.

Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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ValiSystem (vali-system) wrote :

this is _not_ a bug. Real transparency cannot but achieved (with acceptable CPU resources consumption) without hardware acceleration (AIGLX) and a compositing window manager (compiz) this is why it's fixed on gutsy with compiz enabled (but be sure that the transparent background on compiz feature has been written almost from scratch).

Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)
Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: New → Invalid
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