Comments on: Howto create a Transparent Terminal in Ubuntu Desktop

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:27:03 +0000

If anyone wants to reverse the process (like I did, because it’s pretty useless), click on the terminal (where the commands are written), and set the Preferences to Default again. That’s what I did (after trying to look for a solution).

By: me

me — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:27:51 +0000

so, anyone knows how to get it back to the original terminal if you wish to reverse the process?

By: rookie

rookie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:28:25 +0000

HI. its nice post, but after follow your instruction, how to get back my terminal into normal view? thanks for the tutorial. Ill keep it, but i need to sure my self its can be reverse back

By: Carson McNeil

Carson McNeil — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:05:18 +0000

Michal S, that is only if you don’t have compositing enabled for your OS yet. Otherwise, other programs such as firefox will show through, which I find incredibly useful. For example, I can type in terminal code off of a web page on a fullscreen firefox without ever having to switch windows.
That aside, I am trying to get partial transparancy on Terminator.(I’m using #! Linux, so installing gnome-terminal would not be a good solution) Anyone have any ideas?

By: jase

jase — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:12:25 +0000

It isnt Linus’s fault that linux is so configurable. perhaps more than windows will ever be. For one “user friendly” GUI front-end to software in windows, there would be a countless number of check boxes to own up to the amount of options in Linux. You would clickety click your way off the window. Thats why text is better.
If you RTFM like every individual in this planet should (setting an alarm clock for instance), then your so called “expectations” would be irrelevant.
Its in a book at fu**** reading rainbow. *nods*
To expect that “common everyday people” use Windows is false. There is no “common everyday people use windows” here in the computer world my friend. To expect that it wont take as long to learn Linux as you did to learn Windows, is false. If YOU are actually “tired” of windows or just wanting to “experiment” with Linux or even having the slightest bit of interest at all to use Linux as a secondary boot, then I can pretty much tell that this “Linux mentality” statement of yours is a poor man’s excuse not to RTFM and explore your options.
Google.

By: John

John — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:53:13 +0000

“It’s a Windows mentality to install software to do a job that can be done without it.”

It’s a Linux mentality to expect that common everyday people are comfortable living in the guts of the OS or in endless conf files (or even programming/scripting). Personally, I’d prefer to not recreate the wheel just because I can.

Kudos to the author of the howto article! I found it very useful/interesting. I’m using Ubuntu as a VM and on a bootable USB.

By: Locke2007

Locke2007 — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:13:25 +0000

How about this : a slide down (also transparent) terminal/console like you would find in many first person shooter games for your Gnome desktop

http://tech-bytes.co.uk/2008/05/23/a-quake-style-console-for-your-gnome-desktop/

By: Michael S

Michael S — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:19:06 +0000

If you open up the GNOME terminal in ubuntu, click on ‘Edit’ and then ‘Current Profile’, go to ‘Effects’ tab and click on ‘Transparent Background’, you will have exactly the same thing - with one major difference. The transparent background will be your desktop wallpaper only. If your terminal is on top of any other app (such as Firefox), that will not show through. Thus, your terminal text isn’t competing for your eyes.

Also, you can change the font color at the same time, so if your background is very dark, you don’t strain yourself trying to read black. You can read white or any other contrasting color you like.

By: michael

michael — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:32:19 +0000

This is somewhat useless because if you have any text behind the terminal it becomes impossible to read. A great work around is the blur plugin for compiz.

By: Impressed one

Impressed one — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:21:44 +0000

Riiiiiight… that was ‘useful’…

By: machiner

machiner — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:58:50 +0000

It’s a Windows mentality to install software to do a job that can be done without it.

See my transparent terminal, using no ancillary software but only the preferences in the terminal itself. It’s the xfce4-terminal on the xfce4 desktop but the same can be done in Gnome with it’s terminal.

http://www.debiantutorials.org/transparent-terminal-debian.png