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keypunch

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[Solved] Changing terminal opacity? (LXTerminal)

Hi, I can't work out how to change the default opacity of terminal windows in bunsenlabs.

Ideally I'd like 100% opacity because it's really confusing for me to have code in one terminal and see code underneath it from another window, lol.

I've tried adding the following (on separate occasions) to picom.conf but neither had any effect on terminal opacity -

opacity-rule = [ "100:class_g  = 'LXTerminal'" ];

opacity-rule = [ "100:class_g = 'X-terminal-emulator'"];

Any ideas what I'm missing?

Last edited by keypunch (2025-06-04 14:20:27)

ceeslans

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Re: [Solved] Changing terminal opacity? (LXTerminal)

Better change the transparancy setting in LXTerminal itself.
Go to preferences --> Style tab. Click the background preview and pick a solid color

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Last edited by ceeslans (2025-06-04 14:15:51)

keypunch

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Re: [Solved] Changing terminal opacity? (LXTerminal)

Thanks, and thanks - that seems to have done the trick!

greenjeans

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Re: [Solved] Changing terminal opacity? (LXTerminal)

FYI the transparency ability in Lxterminal is gone in trixie. Shame, I kinda liked it.

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Re: [Solved] Changing terminal opacity? (LXTerminal)

^ Switch to xfce4-terminal if you want something similar but a bit more feature-rich. Transparency is in Preferences under Appearance>Background.

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Re: [Solved] Changing terminal opacity? (LXTerminal)

FYI the transparency ability in Lxterminal is gone in trixie.

Maybe it's just harder to configure. BL default in ~/.config/lxterminal/lxterminal.conf is:

bgcolor=rgba(30,43,46,0.9)

The 0.9 ought to be a transparency setting.

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greenjeans

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Re: [Solved] Changing terminal opacity? (LXTerminal)

*slaps forehead* arrgh, getting old I guess and it was several months ago I dealt with this, what I meant to say was that pseudo-transparency is gone, also in bookworm.

I vastly prefer pseudo-transparency, really groovy feature as it shows your desktop wallpaper though the transparency instead of whatever other program you might have open and it's contents. My themes are have dark borders and accents, while the interiors are off-white, so opening the terminal with regular transparency turns the color of the terminal light-colored which looks bad to me. With pseudo-transparency the terminal see-through just shows my dark wallpaper and looks very nice, at least to me. So i've gone to a solid color for the background in Lxterminal. Mate terminal is the same way, true transparency only.