Bug 366368

Summary:	No transparent background when compositor is enabled
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Oded Arbel <oded>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Martin Sandsmark <martin.sandsmark>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kikadf.01, martin.sandsmark, nicolamori, s2
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.04.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/konsole/fca305ebffd331701b59e68ab446db9618987b6f	Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Oded Arbel 2016-08-03 07:31:31 UTC

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

Comment 1 Martin Sandsmark 2016-08-13 13:47:53 UTC

https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128669/

Comment 2 Martin Sandsmark 2016-08-13 18:33:51 UTC

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

Comment 3 Kurt Hindenburg 2016-08-13 20:16:44 UTC

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

Comment 4 Wolfgang Bauer 2016-08-30 09:24:28 UTC

*** Bug 367993 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Christoph Feck 2016-08-31 17:41:09 UTC

*** Bug 368043 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 John Andrew McInnes 2017-06-22 04:08:26 UTC

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.

Comment 7 John Andrew McInnes 2017-06-22 21:33:36 UTC

(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.