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I use Terminator 1.90-1 and Openbox 3.6.1 on a Debian system. Recently a new version of Terminator stopped supporting transparency, and I was advised to install a compositing program like xcompmgr or compiz since Openbox does no t handle compositing itself. I did, and it worked, except that the result is not the same.
In a previous version of Terminator, the background le tme see the X11 root window. If I put another application behind Terminator, I wouldn't see it.
Using a compositing manager, Terminator becomes truly transparent, and I can see applications behind it (firefox, Emacs, and others) -- which is quite annoying and distracting to me.
Is there a way to get a transparent background on Terminator so I could see the X11 root window behind it (and not other windows)?
Thnak you!
PS: it looks like other terminal emulators like lilyterm, xfce4-terminal behave similarly. If there is ano tabbed terminal taht would allow me to set the background as I mentioned, I'd be glad to know (but it would probably have to not depend on vte, since vte itsef stopped supporting transparency, as far as I understand)
Jay
Posted 2016-12-05T00:23:06.657
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1When you say the root window, do you mean your desktop background? – timotree – 2016-12-05T00:31:40.943
Yes, the X11 background, which I set with Eterm – Jay – 2016-12-05T00:32:48.577