Konsole's appearance settings have a big colorful warning saying transparency won't work because desktop effects aren't enabled, yet transparency is clearly working. Maybe the code that detects desktop effects is old/broken ? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Right click in konsole and choose edit current profile 2. Click Appearance tab 3. See the warning yet transparency is clearly working in the current konsole window. Actual Results: Warning is shown Expected Results: Warning shouldn't be there as transparency is working My machine is an Intel i7 with embedded graphics. Arch linux, with all of kde software built with kdesrc-build.
It works as expected here running the latest 15.08 (Kubuntu CI). As always you have to restart Konsole if you change the compositor.
@ Kurt: I think this problem was already solved with https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128669/ The fix is not included in 16.08 though. Comes with next 16.08.1 in a week. @ Jeremy: If you built Konsole with kdesrc-build, it should work though. Works on my Neon dev unstable but not Neon stable.
I committed that to 16.08 branch - the issue I notice now is that upon session restore, transparency doesn't work.
The patch isn't listed in 16.08 tag though: https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=konsole.git&a=log&h=468817123b56db6e2794191402032e28f6411691 So I assumed it ships with 16.08.1, or does it work differently?
they will tag .01 Tuesday This is the 16.08 branch https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=konsole.git&a=shortlog&h=7cecfc078e49e1a8654a759481be31e335be2b09 link at bottom of https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=konsole.git
this is fixed - using 362857 for the startup issue