Make your Gnome Terminal Background (mostly)Transparent on Ubuntu
The Gnome terminal window has the built in ability to show a transparent background. It’s not true transparency, as it simply shows through the background picture, but it’s close enough.
Open up a terminal window, and go to the Edit \ Current Profile menu:
Click on the Effects tab, and then check the Transparent background radio button. The slider will let you control how transparent the background is. All the way to the left is fully transparent.
I left it a little bit shaded, here’s what it looks like over the default Ubuntu background:
This trick is most useful when you have a very dark or very light background.
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Thanks Dude I have been looking for a way change the the fonts and the background of the terminal, It was very nice guide
Awesome, did exactly what I wanted! Thanks for sharing with the world.
Thanks!
Thank you – nice and simple – screen shots are great help.
I’m assuming this is for a version of Ubuntu
If you want ANY window to be transparent you can use an even easier trick on Ubuntu.
Hold down your Alt key and use your mouse scroll wheel and you can gradually change the transparency of any window selected. I don’t know if this only because I have ATI drivers and settings but it works for me.
But wait…
In my computer, what happens when I do the above settings is that the terminal becomes completely transparent. So, that means if I open a window also, the terminal will now show not the background picture, but this openend window as background.
How do I resolve this?
I want only the desktop background picture as the background of my terminal at all times.
But wait…
In my computer, what happens when I do the above settings is that the terminal becomes completely transparent. So, that means if I open a window also, the terminal will now show not the background picture, but this openend window as background.
How do I resolve this?
I want only the desktop background picture as the background of my terminal at all times…