Since 5.7.2, transparent backgrounds no longer work in Konsole. When looking into the profile's appearance tab, the following message is shown: Konsole was started before desktop effects were enabled. You need to restart Konsole to see transparent background. Compositing works fine - transparent windows and panels all work fine. Reproducible: Always
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128669/
Git commit a28902e9120798c67844864a11bbe3f1c2549b74 by Martin T. H. Sandsmark. Committed on 13/08/2016 at 18:33. Pushed by sandsmark into branch 'master'. Fix transparent backgrounds It's apparently not possible to set WA_TranslucentBackground after show(). The MainWindow constructor calls applyKonsoleSettings() which calls KMainWindow::setAutoSaveSettings() which in turn calls setVisible(true), which makes any calls to setTransparency() from the Application::newMainWindow() irrelevant, even if updateUseTransparency() is called from it. REVIEW: 128669 M +3 -1 src/Application.cpp M +5 -10 src/MainWindow.cpp M +0 -2 src/MainWindow.h http://commits.kde.org/konsole/a28902e9120798c67844864a11bbe3f1c2549b74
Git commit fca305ebffd331701b59e68ab446db9618987b6f by Kurt Hindenburg, on behalf of Martin T. H. Sandsmark. Committed on 13/08/2016 at 20:06. Pushed by hindenburg into branch 'Applications/16.08'. Fix transparent backgrounds It's apparently not possible to set WA_TranslucentBackground after show(). The MainWindow constructor calls applyKonsoleSettings() which calls KMainWindow::setAutoSaveSettings() which in turn calls setVisible(true), which makes any calls to setTransparency() from the Application::newMainWindow() irrelevant, even if updateUseTransparency() is called from it. REVIEW: 128669 (cherry picked from commit a28902e9120798c67844864a11bbe3f1c2549b74) M +3 -1 src/Application.cpp M +5 -10 src/MainWindow.cpp M +0 -2 src/MainWindow.h http://commits.kde.org/konsole/fca305ebffd331701b59e68ab446db9618987b6f
*** Bug 367993 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 368043 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
KDE Plasma 5.10.0 KDE Frameworks 5.34.0 x86_64 I have encountered this bug in Konsole version 17.04.1. Konsole is started/restored on login as per my previous session. Transparency is not working and I get the message on the appearance tab. If I exit and restart Konsole it works again. Maybe Konsole is starting too soon? Kind of annoying, but not a major bug.
(In reply to John Andrew McInnes from comment #6) > KDE Plasma 5.10.0 > KDE Frameworks 5.34.0 > x86_64 > > I have encountered this bug in Konsole version 17.04.1. Konsole is > started/restored on login as per my previous session. Transparency is not > working and I get the message on the appearance tab. If I exit and restart > Konsole it works again. Maybe Konsole is starting too soon? Kind of > annoying, but not a major bug. Ok.. its been doing this for months. But today I can't reproduce it. disregard.