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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6 Answers

Navigate through Edit Menu → Profile Preferences → Background Tab → Click the Radio button for Transparent Background and adjust the slider.

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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

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It seems that you're not using compiz. You can install it by running:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install compiz

And if you already have it installed, try running:

compiz --replace 

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I'm a MATE user (under Linux Mint), and this issue was also window compositing for me. To turn it on in Mint 17/MATE, go to Menu -> Desktop Settings -> Windows, and check off the box that says "Use compositing", then restart mdm or reboot your machine.

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Have you tried Edit>Profile Preferences > Background > Transparent Background

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The top answer with metacity did not work for me in Raring (13.04), but I found a setting in dconf editor that did:

org.gnome.metacity.compositing-manager = True

Probably because of the move to a new settings system.