Bug 202639

Summary:	background transparency in Konsole not working
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Christian <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	adaptee, finex, kde, mail, rechner, robertknight
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Christian 2009-08-05 15:34:49 UTC

Version:           2.3 (using 4.3.00 (KDE 4.3.0), Arch Linux)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.30-ARCH

In 4.2 the transparency of the Konsole background worked fine.
After the update to 4.3 this stopped working. Normal Transparency of KWin works fine.

How to Reproduce:
Try transparency within Konsole

Comment 1 FiNeX 2009-08-05 19:05:02 UTC

Do you have compositing (desktop effects) enabled?

Comment 2 Christian 2009-08-05 19:09:53 UTC

Yes I have. Like I said the other effects work fine... And the same config worked in 4.2. If you need more info I am happy to help.

Comment 3 Christian 2009-08-05 23:45:39 UTC

hmmm I updated another KDE and it works there...

The machine with the problem has an ATI Graka FireGL 5250 and uses radeon_hd as grafics driver...

Comment 4 Christian Hesse 2009-08-18 17:43:39 UTC

I just enabled desktop effects in my shiny new KDE 4.3... And I'm missing konsole transparency as well. This is Gentoo Linux with:

Kernel 2.6.31-rc6-git3
media-libs/mesa-7.5-r2
x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3
x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.8.0

Comment 5 Vlado Plaga 2009-10-16 16:07:31 UTC

I'm also missing transparency in konsole. It works in gnome-terminal. Other effects also work, like making the whole window transparent when I move or resize it (be it konsole or any other window). This is true for both of my systems:

Ubuntu 9.10 beta and Debian unstable, both with KDE 4.3.2 (but with different video chipsets, i.e. ATI and Nvidia, and with different settings, i.e. OpenGL vs XRender).

Comment 6 Vlado Plaga 2009-10-16 16:50:55 UTC

I just restarted my computer, and now transparency in konsole is working. Before the reboot I left a konsole open, which should have been about 30% transparent, but was not. But after the reboot it works. Still there seems to be a bug in the activation.

Comment 7 Robert Knight 2009-10-16 23:31:36 UTC

Hello Vlado,

Currently if you start Konsole with desktop compositing disabled and then later enable compositing you have to close all Konsole windows and reopen one to see the transparency setting take effect.

Comment 8 Jekyll Wu 2011-08-02 18:36:41 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 169305 ***