Questions tagged [transparency]
When something is "see-through", it is transparent - an effect commonly applied to desktop windows.
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How to make Terminal semi-transparent?
I am running Ubuntu 11.04 with gnome 2.3 and I would like my terminal window to be transparent.
The problems is the transparent settings in my terminal just shows the desktop background and not the ...
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How can I make my windows transparent by doing Alt+Mouse Scroll?
Pressing and holding Alt + scrolling with the mouse wheel used to give me a transparent window, is there any way I can get that or something similar in Ubuntu 12.04?
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How do I change the transparency level of gnome-terminal?
I want to increase or decrease the transparency of gnome-terminal in Unity.
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How to make KDE Plasma taskbar panel transparent?
I am using KDE Plasma, Currently the taskbar panel is looking like Windows. Can we make it transparent ? If Yes, How ?
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Strange "ghost images" / transparency effect in full-screen videos
A strange problem manifested on my machine recently, and I'm really at a loss when trying to resolve it, as I don't even know how to google this.
I was watching Netflix full-screen one fine day, on ...
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Can I change the Unity Launcher transparency?
Is it possible to change the background opacity of the Unity Launcher?
I see you can change the panel opacity, but then the launcher clashes with the panel.
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How to set up transparent background in XFCE terminal?
I can't find the option to make the terminal background transparent :-( Any idea where can it be?
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How can I get transparent window borders / titlebars in GNOME Shell?
There are plenty of GNOME Shell themes with transparent panels, and I might want a transparent window border / titlebar theme to go with it. The closest thing I can think of is Emerald, but that only ...
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How to change dash transparency?
Depending on the application that is running when I open the dash it is sometimes nearly impossible to read the icons due to the transparency of the dash background. Is there a way to change the ...
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How do I disable Dock and Panel transparency?
See the image below. The transparency is a bit much, and makes it difficult to see the Panel icons. How do I disable it?
I'm using Ubuntu 17.10.
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Problem in background transparency on Terminal
I rebooted my computer and after some changes with Ubuntu Tweak on my window manager theme, etc., I came with this problem in my Terminal.
Before the reboot, I could see the things behind the terminal ...
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How to make windows transparent by default
Is it possible for windows to be transparent by default in Unity 7.4 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS? I used the opacity tool in CompizConfig Settings Manager to set up a keyboard shortcut, but is there a way to ...
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How to remove transparency in KDE without disabling all desktop effects?
I don't understand the hype for transparency. From a usability standpoint I see no argument whatsoever that transparency should enhance your productivity or improve your workflow. Any element on top ...
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Can I set up Nautilus to use transparent background?
I think it'd be nice if Nautilus windows could have semi-transparent backgrounds (same as Gnome terminal can) for files and places lists. Is it possible?
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Workarounds for mouse pointer visibility in screen sharing sessions?
Edit: The problem in Teams has been solved by Microsoft since the question was asked: Teams screen sharing sessions now capture the mouse pointer also on Linux computers. This makes this question ...
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Did they just remove the Background settings for Terminal?
About 10 minutes ago I set up my basic Terminal app to be semi-transparent and was really happy with the result. Now, some updates ran and the whole "Background" tab is gone from Terminal settings. ...
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Overlay translucent image on desktop / above all windows
I want a translucent PNG overlayed on top of my screen (above all windows). I'm using this to mark a visible region while streaming.
So far I've figured out that qiv -transparent filename.png will ...
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How do I set Terminal as part of my wallpaper?
I have spent the last few days wiping my laptop (too much "experimenting") and getting up to date with 11.10. In the process, I came across conky which I'm now playing with, and along with conky I saw ...
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Looking for a linux equivalent to Trans Lucy
Trans Lucy for the Mac, allows you to watch video in a semi transparent window, superimposed on top of your other windows.
You can continue to work, as all clicks on the area covered by Trans Lucy ...
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GNOME Terminal Transparency with GNOME Classic (no effects)
In the terminal preferences there is an option to make it transparent.
Now, in GNOME Classic with no effects (I think there is no Compiz), this option still exists. However, it is not true ...
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How to enhance the transparency of the Unity 3D launcher?
Where is the background of the Unity (3D) launcher located? I would like to enhance the transparency of the launcher to make it fit better with light themes (such as Radiance). The actual transparency ...
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Make terminal window directly transparent to Ubuntu wallpaper [duplicate]
So before I came to Linux I was using Windows and stumbled upon a Kali version, in which when you opened a terminal and you could see through every window (Firefox) directly to your wallpaper.
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How do I make Panel always transparent like the Dock in GNOME 3?
I'm using Ubuntu 17.10. I want the Panel to be always transparent instead of dynamic transparency.
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Change opacity of single window
I notice Xubuntu can let me change the opacity of inactive windows, which seems nice for having small videos playing while showing my terminal below. But it quickly gets annoying when doing anything ...
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Is there a way to make the top bar in chrome transparent?
I have my top panel transparent. It looks nice, except for when I browse the internet, the black bar along the top of chrome, which looks pretty against the non-transparent panel, sticks out like a ...
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How do I make the Unity launcher completely transparent?
Before anyone jumps the gun and votes to close this, I am not asking how to make it "see-through", which you can adjust in CCSM by setting the Opacity to 0%.
I'm asking the following: How can you ...
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Can Wayland have network transparency implemented as a plugin? [closed]
To my understanding there's no reason why a Wayland plugin can't hide the app in the local machine, forward it's windows to a remote machine, and feed the app input from the remote machine. Am I wrong?...
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How To make LXTerminal of lubuntu 16.04 transparent?
I want to know How To make LXTerminal of lubuntu 16.04 transparent ?
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How to make Dash-to-Panel in Ubuntu 18.04 transparent on maximized windows?
I've already tried the following: Full transparency on Ubuntu 18.04 dock
But I just need to make the panel transparent, and I can't find any way to do so successfully.
The gray opaque panel doesn't ...
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How to make the Gnome Terminal transparent [duplicate]
I have been having to use the Xfce 4 Terminal because I want to have a see through background, and I couldn't get it working in the Gnome Terminal, but as there are some disadvantages of using the ...
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Making Gtk.Window Transparent?
Here's my code and I simply cannot figure out why my top level window doesn't become transparent.
xwininfo says that windows has 32 Bit depth. I am running Ubuntu 11.10 and if I call .set_opacity(.5) ...
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How to get Aero Glass effect (transparency in window decorations) in KDE Plasma 5?
How can I enable an effect similar to Aero Glass in Windows for window's titlebars without switching the default Breeze theme?
It can be done pretty easily in Unity/Compiz by gsettings altering ...
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Is it possible to have window transparency in Mutter/Gnome Shell? [duplicate]
I really like the transparency effects in compiz with GNOME2 and wanted to know if there was any way (I'm assuming without using compizconfig) to have some kind of transparency in the windows. Is ...
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How do I get a transparent page/screen in Firefox?
So, everytime I open a new tab (about:newtab) or just a white screen (about:blank).
It would be better, Firefox displays my desktop instead (or what's 'behind' firefox) to work more efficient.
I ...
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How do I get transparent windows to show all windows beneath them?
The kind of transparency I'm seeing in Ubuntu 11.10 is it will show the desktop wallpaper. This is not what I want.
When I first installed Ultimate Edition, transparent windows would show the window ...
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How to remove all window transparency effects
I would like to remove all transparency effects from windows in Ubuntu 18.04.
An example: If the browser is below the terminal window I can see the bookmarks bar and everyhing else through it.
How to ...
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Not clickable transparent window on ubuntu desktop
The past couple of days two transparent window areas appeared on my ubuntu desktop, which are not clickable.
This is a printscreen on my desktop where you can clearly see the windows I am referring ...
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How to set window transparency in Kubuntu?
How does one set the window transparency with ALT + mouse wheel in Kubuntu 22.04?
I can no longer find that setting anywhere.
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Switch back to pseudo-transparency?
First off, I realize that what I'm hoping to get is not the expected behavior.
On my older desktop, I have the following set up: Ubuntu 10.04. Xfce running (installed after the fact). I use the ...
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Unity top bar 100% transparent
Just wondering if anyone knows how to get unity's top bar to be 100% transparent. I have it so on my second screen, but it seems to add a bit of a background on my main screen. See the screenshot ...
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How to keep GNOME panel transparent even when app is maximized in Ubuntu 18.04?
I am using GNOME's "Dash-to-panel" extension for shifting status bar to the top and same for the transparency.
In Desktop mode, the transparency is there on status bar
However, Status Bar ...
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Is there a theme with a short or transparent title bar?
Is there any theme, under any ubuntu desktop or window manager,
that has the feature illustrated in the image below, where the title bar doesn't occupy the whole width, but is instead as short as the ...
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Can we have a transparent HUD like image/information layer on display?
Sometimes I adore the HUD information or to have a favorite image picture on the front of the display layer (always on top and un-clickable).
That would look like this and help our operation or just ...
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How to edit nautilus side menu transparency and font color?
I've been trying to customize my Ubuntu 12.04 Unity desktop.
I am describing what I've done until now to make it easier to understand what is my practical question. Please don't refer to it as too ...
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Is there a way to set Unity 3d's dock/launcher to be completely opaque like Unity 2d's? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I change the Unity Launcher transparency?
Unity 3d icons and launcher:
Unity 2d icons and launcher:
In unity 2d, the icons looks darker than in 3d. In 3d, the icons ...
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Can't open Terminal!
I've customized the terminal to put a transparency. But I put a start command "dir" to see what happen, now I open the terminal ,he makes a dir and closes. Before I could to change the default profile ...
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I want to make every window as transparent with font as opaque (as gnome terminal capabality) [closed]
I want to make every window ]transparent with opaque text.
I have done some search on the internet and the answer I got is:
Open Compiz Config Settings Manager.
Click on Opacity, Brightness and ...
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How to make the windows' title bars transparent in Ubuntu 18.04?
(I'm new to Ubuntu, and Linux systems in general.)
Hello! I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 with the default theme that it came with, and I want to make the title bar in every window - transparent.
So it ...
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gnome classic transparent panel
Nearly 2013 and it's forced me to find new os (my current - 10.04 lts).
Testing 12.04. Unfortunately, unity is overly simple. Unity Launcher is not customizable.
I can not even move launcher to bottom....
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Is it possible to keep the Window Buttons and Title opaque and the border transparent?
The answer might be as simple no, but using Ubuntu Tweak I made the borders of my windows transparent as shown here:
However, the window buttons and window title are also transparent, making them ...
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